In my life, worth relates highly to money. When I have lots of money I feel important. But there is a minimum. As long as I am above the minimum I feel acceptable. When I have no home or no job, I don't want people to know. I try to keep this a secret. I try to steer the topic away from what I am ashamed of. I'll pretend not to care, but I don't completely not care. Technically I agree with you, but pragmatically, I feel the suggestion to correlate money with worth is not a small one and not so easy to drop.
Value is often measured by the difficulty of attaining something, but there are many difficult things to attain that are not worth that much.
At this moment finding a deep sense of peace has worth. It isn't necessary. Life can be lived while feeling rattled. But peace is something I value because I enjoy it. At this moment I cannot say I have worth and mean it, because I do not know what I means. But I can say peace has worth and mean it because value is easy for me to see there.
Though following this line of thought, I value that something within me can recognize peace to be preferable to franticness. If that same something valued franticness then I suppose I'd be happy to be frantic. So to be more clear I value my ability to discover and experience what I value, which just so happens to be peace but could just as well have been anything else. Who I am and what I value most seem intrinsically related.
In my life, worth relates highly to money. When I have lots of money I feel important. But there is a minimum. As long as I am above the minimum I feel acceptable. When I have no home or no job, I don't want people to know. I try to keep this a secret. I try to steer the topic away from what I am ashamed of. I'll pretend not to care, but I don't completely not care. Technically I agree with you, but pragmatically, I feel the suggestion to correlate money with worth is not a small one and not so easy to drop.
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ReplyDeleteI've been as poor as any man in human history.
Amusingly, even this is an art.
When you master it, it is blissful.
Value is often measured by the difficulty of attaining something, but there are many difficult things to attain that are not worth that much.
ReplyDeleteAt this moment finding a deep sense of peace has worth. It isn't necessary. Life can be lived while feeling rattled. But peace is something I value because I enjoy it. At this moment I cannot say I have worth and mean it, because I do not know what I means. But I can say peace has worth and mean it because value is easy for me to see there.
Though following this line of thought, I value that something within me can recognize peace to be preferable to franticness. If that same something valued franticness then I suppose I'd be happy to be frantic. So to be more clear I value my ability to discover and experience what I value, which just so happens to be peace but could just as well have been anything else. Who I am and what I value most seem intrinsically related.
It is non-attachment to peace, frantic, (or anything else) that has value.
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