Money or Life

This isn't a debate on which is right - financial worth or self-worth. It doesn't seek an either / or answer. It's about respecting the fact that success is found from within, utilizing all the resources - natural and material - at our disposal. It's about respecting the dignity and worth of humanity - self, and others. We come into the world with nothing, and we will leave it the same way. It's what we did along the way, not the money we spent, that others will remember after we've gone. Personal values have become vague and uncertain in deference to the politics of economic rationalism in which the dollar measures everything. They say good comes out of all ills. I am increasingly hearing positive, human responses to the financial crisis: ?Deciding to love the person they are, no matter what money they have.?Philosophical reflections that life goes on no matter what,?Appreciating more what they have, rather than what they would like