Author Archives: Bob Patrick
Companions on the Way
Recently I was at the gym. I was using some weights in one corner of the gym, and next to me was a large leg press machine. The platform that one has to stand on to use that machine is … Continue reading →
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Love and Interdependence
If I am honest, the hook for me in Unitarian Universalism for the last 20 years has always been what we have called during that time the “seventh principle:” the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a … Continue reading →
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Liberating Love–Letting Go
I find a lot of meaning in seeing patterns, symbols, shapes and repeating dynamics. Anytime. Anywhere. With any set of relationships. When I see a pattern or repeating dynamic or a symbol of a thing that is important to me, … Continue reading →
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Love and Justice
Justice is another one of those words–the kind that can hold almost entirely opposite meanings, and where context means everything. When the “justice system” sentences a human being to prison time and fines of money, it is imposing punishment for … Continue reading →
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Love and Generosity
When we bring love to our understanding of generosity, we transform it from a synonym for charity to the act of creativity that is true generosity. Consider the people across your life who have done something good, kind and thoughtful … Continue reading →
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Love and Pluralism
Somewhere in all of our early education, we learned the word “plus.” It was a part of our earliest math lessons: one plus one equals two. At a more sophisticated age (maybe middle school) we might have been found saying … Continue reading →
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Love and Transformation
This is another of my own musings on the proposed new expression of our Unitarian Universalists principles. Transformation is an expensive word that means change. Its Latin roots imply the changing of the shape of something from one thing to … Continue reading →