"Contemplation is not just looking at God; for most of us, now in via, it consists in looking for God, and it from time to time some 'sight' of him is accorded, this will only be a glimmer granted by grace in what will always be a 'cloud of unknowing'. So when I use the term contemplation' I use it in this sence; looking for God. This looking for God is done through, with, and in Christ, in unity with the Ho ly Spirit so that we can give, within that very life of the trinity, all honour and glory to God, the Almighty Father. That in brief is, I think, the essence of the monastic life."