“The Common Understanding”

....is the fund of knowledge into which we are born;

The Common Understanding – the Song

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The Common Understanding

is the fund of knowledge

into which we are born;

from which we spring

on our journeys through

human consciousness.

The beauty of the Common Understanding

is that

it is assembled over many centuries

by ultimately selfless people.

In their journeys through human consciousness,

many people forget the indefinable nature of the task facing them.

They forget that they are here to learn and to contribute.

In the course of this forgetting

many of us become petty and selfish.

But this only lasts a short time,

because people die,

and in this ultimately selfless act

they leave behind whatever they have discovered

on their journey.

The sum total of all these discoveries

that those of us still journeying can remember or record

is the Common Understanding.

The sum total of these recorded or remembered discoveries

becomes the best answer that we, through the generations, can provide

to the question

“Why are we here?”