Each of us is born into a thought community.
We take on the thought system of that thought community.
The thought system tells us who we are, where we came from, what is important, how to live, where we are going.
Some of us stay within that thought system all our lives.
Some of us leave the thought system and adopt a different thought system.
The different thought system adopted may be that of another thought community.
Some of us then stay within the thought system of our new community.
Some of us who have adopted the thought system of a new community leave that community and open to a different thought system.
Some of us explore all thought systems and find a common underpinning to them all. If that commonality fits our experience thus far, we adopt that underpinning as the basis for our idiosyncratic thought system.
And so on.
We are born again and again. Unless we stop thinking and decide to stay where we are until we die.
We take on the thought system of that thought community.
The thought system tells us who we are, where we came from, what is important, how to live, where we are going.
Some of us stay within that thought system all our lives.
Some of us leave the thought system and adopt a different thought system.
The different thought system adopted may be that of another thought community.
Some of us then stay within the thought system of our new community.
Some of us who have adopted the thought system of a new community leave that community and open to a different thought system.
Some of us explore all thought systems and find a common underpinning to them all. If that commonality fits our experience thus far, we adopt that underpinning as the basis for our idiosyncratic thought system.
And so on.
We are born again and again. Unless we stop thinking and decide to stay where we are until we die.
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