Religion Is Common Sense

In a common sense way

we feel ourselves to be

unique entities. 

Common sense tells us that our mind
is separate from our body 

and our mind could continue on

without a body. 

For common sense, it is hard to see

how the world could even exist

without our unique consciousness

to guarantee it.

Against common sense, it seems likely

that we are mostly similar to others,

both other people and other animals,

that our mind is the same as our body,

and that our unique consciousness

will end when our body dies.

Against common sense,

we feel pretty certain

that the world will continue on OK

when we are gone.

But if we are not unique,

if our consciousness does not belong to us

any more than the world itself does,

then we may know through a sense

more common yet

that each of us is a part

of a greater life.

We should identify ourselves with that life
and be content

that our separated,
unique, existence

will soon end.