When you say, “She/He/It really touched me,” what are you really communicating?

My sense is that person, place or thing found the part of you that is the same as them or it.

For example, when you are moved by a passage from an inspiring text, you experience the “In common” part of you – the same “In common” part the author tapped into when they wrote those words, even if they lived thousands of years ago.

The same can be said of a painting, a film, a photograph, a breathtaking sunset or the actions of another.

Who recognized the magnificence? – The part of you that you have in common with the magnificence itself.

The causative creation sparked a sensation within you – the same spark they had at the moment of creating.

Creation is what we have in common. We all go to the same place to get it. It just comes out differently through our human filters. Yet, there is no filtering out the feeling we get when we experience the creation. That’s the true “In common” experience.

Our surface attempts are an effort to get to this deeper “In common” feeling. “Where are you from?” “Do you have children?” “Do you play golf?”

There is a part of us seeking what we have in common. When we limit it to what we have on the surface, we cheat ourselves of the real “In common” experience.

We are creatures of creativity. When we relegate ourselves to rote – fixed ideology, stuck in the mud stubbornness, inflexible imperatives – we cut off our creativity. In this state, the only things we have in common with another are our prejudices.

As a human being, you cannot not create. It really comes down to choosing what kind of creation you’ll make. Will it be a conditioned one, where you only parrot what you intellectually learned, or will it be an unconditioned creation that comes from the deeper place we all have in common?

Creation is our common ground.

It reminds me of a poster I recently saw in a chiropractor’s office. “I learned everything I need to know from Star Wars.”

So it begs the question: How are you going to use your “In common,” creative “Force?”

Will it be to divide and conquer or will you use it to find what we truly have in common?

All the best,

John

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