What comes first in this world …is not “being” but “the union which produces this being.”… Reality is woven through layers of bondedness. Cosmic life is intrinsically relational. Nothing is itself taken alone. Reality is “being with another,” in a way open to more union and more being I exist in order that I may give of myself, for it is in giving that I am myself. Cosmic life is intrinsically communal. Being is first a “we” before it can become an “I”….The universe is thoroughly relational and in the framework of love.
The Unbearable Wholeness of Being by Ilia Delio, p.45