Key points

Awareness is the constant background that makes every sensation, thought, and emotion knowable.

Noticing awareness itself shifts attention from the contents of experience to the presence that reveals them.

This shift can soften emotional reactivity and create a steadier, more grounded way of relating to life.

“All things arise in awareness and never exist apart from it. It is all one substance, all one light… We live, move, and have our being in that one ocean of light and never, ever move away from that.”

—John Wheeler

Imagine standing in a pitch-black room. You cannot see anything until you switch on a flashlight. A circular area in front of you suddenly is lit up, and everything outside that beam remains hidden in darkness.

Now look at your own visual field. Expand you

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