The world for thousands of years has been based on

the belief system that when we are born we are nothing, know nothing and worth nothing.

It is the role of the adults to teach us as children, how to become somebody, learn the values of this world so we can earn the right of living in it according to its laws and be worthy of been fellow humans. So we have to listen and obey our parents, teachers, political & spiritual leaders in order to understand how to behave, understand what matters and be trained how to get a proper education, get a proper job, get a proper spouse, get a proper house, raise proper children and die a proper death as productive members of the society.

We learn to obey instructions and disregard our inner soul instincts, since our early childhood. Initially when we are young children we instinctually detect  that there is something wrong with all adults who seem lost but because our parents as well behave in the same way and we love our parents, we forgive them and try to please them until we grow and reach the age of 10,  forgetting  who we are and start becoming like them, lost , striving for grades, career, security , recognition, money, power, “love” in an endless loop that cannot possibly earn us what matters most to us – our forgotten  identity and worth. Although forgotten, that identity is not lost as its essence supersedes all other artificial values and at times we get glimpses of it and get reconnected.

Now let’s dare reverse that belief system about our worth and consider that each human life since its birth has an inherent worth, an amount of energy that can be utilized daily in a variety of different ways.

Each way that it is used condenses its original value in varying degrees and that value does not need to be earned by any strife because it belongs to us although our actions can preserve or waste it in different ways.

Under this perspective  our entire life experience takes a whole new meaning and purpose.

This meaning and purpose is based in honoring what life has given to us as a present and the only thing we need to do is recognize it, accept it appreciate it and share it interacting with other beings and forms of life which all participate in that dance of life.

That value offered to us by Life itself can fluctuate depending on how wise, appreciative and sharing we are in its utilization.

A good question would be how much is worth that inherent worth. Is it finite or infinite?  Perhaps the answer is – both.

We have access to the infinite reservoir of cosmic energy but we can only use as much as we can handle.

The universe will give us as much as we ask, based on 3 conditions:

a) what we need b) what we are worth and c) the amount of energy we can handle.

Defining more clearly those 3:

a) Need means true need not flimsy desire

b) Worth is equivalent to our overall abilities, time & energy invested and willingness to make a difference around us

c) No amount of energy will be disposed to us if we cannot handle it.

So the only real limitations are posed by our human body and mind but our life choices and energy utilization can increase or decrease those limits in varying degrees.