Ilia Delio

Weekly Pause and Ponder

Weekly Pause and Ponder

“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.

Weekly Pause & Ponder

We are reaching a fork in the road; two paths are diverging on planet Earth and the one we choose will make all the difference for the life of the planet.  Shall we continue our practices... and undergo extinction?  Or shall we wake up to this dynamic, evolutionary universe and the rise of consciousness toward an integral wholeness?

Ilia DelioThe Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution, and the Power of Love (Orbis Books: 2013), xxii-xxiii.