To be common is divine.
To leave the common plane - to think of myself either as beneath common (I suck or I am worthless) or to think of myself as above common (I am great) is to create the conditions for a feeling of hell.
A worthless person has no home in the community of people. Neither does a great person. There is no feeling of community in either place. Without a feeling of community, the world seems against me which can only result in a feeling of hell.
To be truly happy, I must (at least internally) accept the notion that I am equally significant and at the same time equally insignificant - an inextricable part of the community of all things, and truly embrace the fact that I live a common (meaning unseparated) life.
Because common is the only place one can find community (the fullest sense of which I might call Heaven). To be one with all things, one must be OF all things. Not above or below.
Jesus was a prime example of the divinity of being common. Humble in deed and appearance, accepting and engaging everyone as an equal, rejecting all opportunities for “greatness”: wealth, publicity, power...as well as all expressions of worthlessness: cowering, hiding, lying, recanting, playing small...at every turn returning to human-sized humility and continuing to live into his human-sized wholeness.
Jesus didn’t elevate himself, those around him did and those who follow him do. And they do themselves a disservice by forgetting Jesus’ commonness and humility because it is only through his commonness that some of his most profound lessons can be understood and his most incredible gifts received.
When I question my stressful thoughts, both my desire for greatness and my victimhood fall away and I see that all paths lead me to the recognition of my common oneness with all things.