Awareness is a state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness! An alert cognitive state!
Ideally, we all should be always in this state! But reality is different. Most of us take years to come to this state! It might be a consistent quest leading to this elevated position or pure accidental finding – when we are in our true senses! – like the fable below:
A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall.
One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night.
One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant!
All that matters is that moment we open our eyes to witness reality and appreciate its beauty!