Key points

Awareness is ever-present yet easily overlooked; metaphors help reveal awareness.

Noticing awareness shifts perspective, reducing distress and revealing unconditional OK-ness.

Metaphors clarify awareness but are models, not reality—they guide but never capture the whole.

Awareness is both pervasive and subtle. Paradoxically, it is at once everywhere and seemingly nowhere. It’s everywhere because you can’t experience anything outside of awareness, pretty much by definition. In every direction, everything you see, hear, and feel is happening in awareness. You can’t step out of awareness to see what the world would be like from outside it. Yet, because it’s so omnipresent, it’s easy to take for granted and miss. David Foster Wallace once illustrated in a story about two young f

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