Exploring the Subject-Object Relationship

If, in reality, all is one, and the subject-object relationship only exists in the mind, why does consciousness seem to have to stretch its attention towards an apparent object in order to experience or perceive it?

Rupert says: ‘The idea of the stretching of attention makes a concession to the apparent reality of the subject-object relationship. And when we realise that it is not “I” (the body) but “I” (awareness) that is the true subject of experience, we still continue to see experience from the localised point of view of our bodies. That doesn’t change.

‘Attention remains the mechanism by which the apparently separate subject of experience knows objective experience. But at the same time, we know that there’s no real separation between “I”, the apparent subject, and “you”, the apparent object. And this absence of the felt sense of separation is the experience of love.’