Love energy marks the history of the universe. It is present from the Big Bang onward, though indistinguishable from molecular forces. It amplifies itself by way of union because it “is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces . . . The physical structure of the universe is love.” It draws together and unites; in uniting it differentiates. Love is the core energy of evolution and its goal....Love-energy is intrinsically relational and as core energy undergirds relationality in the universe. Beings do not act toward a self-sufficient end in which relationship may or may not be important; rather, union is the end toward which each being directs itself.
The Unbearable Wholeness of Being, by Ilia Delio, pp.44-45.