All of nature may be aware but only you are aware of being aware, so that in an essential way every experience is about the experiencing. There is a distinction here which cannot be resolved despite the ventures of all of human history. When it is forgotten is when you are most in thrall to it, seeming lost in your own world. It is as if an impurity has become embedded in the clear field of awareness, and what can this impurity be but itself unmodified awareness?