There’s an interesting division you can make between two modes of experience: let’s call them suchness and problem.
Problem is the segmenting, motivation-driven mode. It’s the one you’re in when you’re reading a text quickly, looking for the takeaway facts. Or when you’re in a motivated conversation, where the goal is to say a certain thing, or create a certain reaction, rather than flow with whatever happens. Or when you’re looking at a beautiful overgrowth of jungle in front of you as an obstacle to be hacked away by a scimitar.
Meanwhile, suchness is the appreciative, open mode. It’s the one you’re in during certain kinds of meditation, or more open-ended conversation, where you’re suspending the interpretation of experience, in favor of soaking in the sensory pond. You are encompassing, not controlling. There are responses and choices, but they’re determined by the terrain as much as determined by you. It feels more like being a soaring bird gliding on thermals than being a head-oriented thing-chopper.
I think having a balance of these two modes seems really important to having a good life.