Healthy Relationships
Equals Healthy Planet

Relationships are the single most important element of our human experience. How we relate to our self and each other is essentially our primary purpose. Think about it. We are born to one another, and we often die with one another. And the time spent in between life and death is most often shared with others. It is the relationships that you create during your life that will leave the essence of your being, once you are gone.  

So in this "Earth School", we are relative to every thing. Some leading world religions also follow this paradigm, encompassing their belief system around a connection with all. The presence of religious structures cherish and honor everything as equal. The majority of human beings do not truly feel this way.  They continuing to create alienation between one another and connections primarily based on unhealthy conditioned/foundational beliefs. 

Separating our self from nature and other humans is indeed more common place; it is an attitude that currently plagues our planet. Somehow and somewhere in our making as children, we became more and more isolated from our self.  Oour environment, as our peers and family reinforce this separation due their own fears. The culprit, FEAR, handed down from generation to generation in both science and religion, has continuously illustrated our differences [ex. genus, species, race, sex, nationality, etc], which creates more separation with little resolve. 

But this is not reality. We are all composed of the same matter. And as human beings, we are also comprised of the same emotional body including: love, fear, joy, sorrow, happiness, despair, excitement, laziness, judgment etc. And as we implicate our emotions into matter and each other, we add a complete twist to our experiences. If you don't think this is true, think about the things you bind/attach yourself emotionally to, such as people, places, and things. And consider what they mean to you. Make a list. 

So everything on your list is what you "relate" to somehow. The people may consist of family, friends, lover.  Places may be your home town, vacation spots, or your place of business; things may be your home, garden, car, boat, etc. How you relate to every thing ultimately gauges how healthy you relate to the world. It is your attachment to all the above that will determine your happiness or misery when all is lost or dead. 

But before we go there, we must understand that we consciously seek out the people, places, and things that "make" us feel good.  And by doing so, we begin to create an illusion of our own well being. Why? Because this quest is external.  It is also important to understand that at an unconscious or subconscious level, we seek out the experiences to help us grow and heal.} Looking for happiness from the outside, we actually hold all the things around us responsible for OUR happiness. This thought process couldn't be further from the truth, and will inevitably lead us to a life unfulfilled. 

In reality, happiness, contentment, inner peace, and well being can only manifest from the inside out. Without the foundation to feel whole within our self, our quest for happiness through external means is as unquenchable as drinking sea water. We're left spiritually starving if our beliefs carry us away from cultivating true peace within. Whether or not we had a strong foundation of self awareness we CAN learn to become whole no matter what age we are presently. 

Discovering the truth is your life purpose. Truth is derived only from your own self. Inquiry that creates experiences that will ultimately lead you to becoming a positive and contributing force on the planet. This journey involves every one and every thing on Earth; and it revolves around our relationships. If we choose, we may attract people that support the old ways of thinking inherent in our family.  Or we may attract those more progressive through our own initiation to embark on a journey towards truth. 

The path is met with both acceptance and resistance.  There will be both past and present people who exhibit the qualities we are working to become.  Life will present this type of fork in the road repeatedly, prompting more questions about who we really are. Each answer changes the course of our path subtly or drastically.  And is often met with resistance with those who have known us for a long time. Perseverance takes us out of the familiar comfort zone. Although it is usually a dull pain we've endured for years, the illusion of safety, and thrusts us into the river of Life. And although amazing, it is not easily actualized. It requires all the effort we've ever put forth into anything in our lives.  And it must be consistently maintained or we risk falling into the abyss of illusion once again. 

Once we embark on a journey that goes beyond our past beliefs, we find support systems to encourage and assist us on our path. All we have to do is show up and dedicate our self to the process. 

For more information, contact Laura Castanza or Julia George/Aquarian Age @ 561.750.9292 or aquarianagegallery@bellsouth.net.  

Laura Castanza majored in Communication as a means to develop her creative expression, artistic style, and overcome interpersonal obstacles. Her life experience, and dedication to reaching higher levels of consciousness, she produces works that blend both psychology and spirituality. Her intention of healing of both the writer and the reader. Laura has many published works and consistently shares Universal Consciousness with all those who come in contact with her. Phone: 561.862.5055, Email: Lcastanza@yahoo.com 

Shadow Worker, Julia George, began studying Jungian Psychology at the age of 12, becoming fascinated with such topics as Universal Consciousness, Intelligence, and the "Shadow". This was no childhood phase as much as it was a signal of her higher purpose. She left her hometown in New Jersey for the oceanic atmosphere of South Florida at age 19.  Julia would experience a series of significant relationships that would lead her towards universal truth/knowledge obtained by her own personal journey through this life. Now in her 5th decade, she has fully embraced her own "Shadow".  Now she is able to guide others safely out of their own darkness into the light. Phone: 561.750.9292, Email: aquarianagegallery@bellsouth.net 

Relationship Quotes For Your Enjoyment

Relationship Quotes for Your Enjoyment

Sometimes the best way to say something is the way someone more literary than you has said it. In that vein, here are some relationship quotes of note:

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
-Oprah Winfrey

"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they're trying to find someone who's going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take." -Anthony Robbins

"Some people come into our lives and leave footprints on our hearts and we are never ever the same." -Flavia Weedn

"The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time." - Caroline Myss

"Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." - Mark Twain

"Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that are rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with" ~ Gillian Anderson

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

"Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found." - Winston Churchill

"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations." - Kahlin Gibran

"To love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person." - Eric Fromm

"Man is a knot into which relationships are tied." ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and it's good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete." ~ Keith Sweat

"Our greatest joy-and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others." ~ Stephen R. Covey

"Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made - like bread, remade all the time, made new." - Ursula LeGuin

"Once the trust goes out of a relationship, it's really no fun lying to 'em anymore." -Norm from Cheers

There’s a broad collection of relationship quotes for you.