…“to be” is “to be with.” Reality is “being with another” in a way open to more union and more being. Since being is existence towards another, being is relational and exists for the sake of giving. I do not exist in order that I may possess; rather I exist in order that I may give of myself for it is in giving that I am myself… Being is first a “we” before it can become an “I.”
- Ilia Delio. The Unbearable Wholeness of Being, p. 45.