That qualia are associated with every moment of consciousness is related to the fact that for us consciousness and self-consciousness are the same. The experience is accompanied by qualia which you are fee to focus on so as to experience the experiencing - as if the qualia are shorthand notes you can reference in order to re-experience the experience. In this sense consciousness is innately self-referential, it completes its own loop, but with an unacknowledged gap, that between awareness and quale. Or you could say there is awareness of awareness, but only via the intermediary of the quale, which binds subject and object.