Interchangeable

To be attentive at all, whether in meditation or in ordinary life, to the presence of God as the primal parental unity we call Creator, we need to become attentive to Christ. But that does not mean staring at an image of him, or conducting an imaginary conversation with him. It means entering into the attentiveness of Christ himself. Contemplation is not looking at or being looked at. It is a state of unified consciousness in which the identities of self and other, subject and object are — joyfully not terribly — interchangeable. 

The Selfless Self by Laurence Freeman OSB