Ordinary Meaning of Worth

1. The quality that renders something desirable, useful, or valuable: the worth of higher education
2. Material or market value: stocks having a worth of ten million dollars
3. A quantity of something that may be purchased for a specified sum or by a specified means: ten dollars' worth of natural gas; wanted their money's worth
4. Wealth; riches: her net worth
5. Quality that commands esteem or respect; merit: a person of great worth

Perennialist Meaning of Worth

1. The Law of Higher Worth:   
  • The more a sub-human believes himself to be worth, the less worth he actually is.
  • The less a genuine human asserts himself to be worth, the more worth he is.

    2. Sub-humans believe they are worth more than they really are. They bore others with incessant rehearsals of their supposed importance and significance; they never stop talking about themselves. They feel their personal feelings are all-important, so they drone on incessantly about their fears, doubts, suspicions, and egomaniacal puffery.

    3. Whereas subhumans delude themselves into believing that their worth can be identified by their financial net worth, genuine humans evaluate their worth in terms of their: rationality, understanding, self-awareness, appreciation, earning of discernment, communion with Higher Beings, and altruism.