Touch literally coordinates thought, and not just any kind of thought: rather, sensuous, relational thought. Language comes relationally and remains relational: the process of facilitated communication only emphasizes what is everywhere the case: to act is never to act alone. ... There is only desire and the social and nothing else.

Erin Manning, The Minor Gesture

Understanding of the self only arises in relationship, in watching yourself in relationship to people, ideas, and things; to trees, the earth, and the world around you and within you. Relationship is the mirror in which the self is revealed. Without self knowledge there is no basis for right thought and action.