“No one may pride herself on any gift that she has received from God, as if it were her own. No one may be jealous of another because of her gift, as if that gift belonged entirely to her alone. Rather let each one regard the gifts that she has as belonging to all, and let her never doubt that everything that the other has is also just as much hers. God, in his love, has arranged everything so that each one of us needs the other, and what we don’t have in ourself, we possess in each other…”

-St. Aelred, 12th century Cistercian