Originally Posted By: Tutor Turtle
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From whence does value arise?
All that is.
Self measure, attachment, ego.
Depends on your point of reference.

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What do we value?
That would be a matter of either self idealization, or Self Realization.

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How is value established?
Through the levels of conscious awareness, understanding and experience, we choose that which we feel adds value or definition to our selves, in our relationship with life.

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Where is the source of value?

It's the same source of all things. How it is filtered thru awareness in differing states of consciousness, experience and the ego's influence within the identification of individuality determines the way we identify or imagine it.


Thanks, TT! That is a very thorough metaphysical answer, but I was hoping for more mundane suggestions... say, from the perspective of farmers, or refugees, or the homeless or hungry or in some other way insecure, or the marginally secure or very secure, or even from particular religious or political/ethical perspectives.

Food will get you through times of no gold, better than gold will get you through times of no food.


...the sort of "values" cited here.

~ wink

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