All enduring relationships share congruence, unity, and purpose.
I do not hear this discussed and don’t perceive people to be aware of it.

“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business;
we are each other’s magnitude and bond.”
— Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize

Your intellect controls your deductive mind, while your heart controls your imagination. Each contributes to the other, but intellect works to resolve differences while the heart creates unity. Understanding differences and appreciating wholeness sound similar but they are of different qualities.

The lives of most of my counseling clients center on relationships, but they split into two kinds of relationships. One group is working to establish and control differences, while the other is working to establish unity. Actually, one doesn’t make unity, one creates congruence.

Having a shared goal is an unrecognized and necessary part of a co-creative relationship. It’s not enough to resolve differences and work in a united relationship. There must also be a shared purpose.

The Working Parts

Building Relationship

Materialism Encourages Reductive Thinking

Congruence, Unity, and Purpose

Finding Congruence

Unity

Purpose

Mountains, the Cosmos, and Relationships

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