Value at The Almaasary • A Glossary of Key Passages from the Work of A.H. Almaas

Value-As-Such

Right, that’s what we're talking about: your existence itself. It is not valuable; it is value. It is the source of value; it is what makes anything else have value. We usually don’t let ourselves see that deeply. Value, value-as-such, is an aspect of Essence. It can be experienced as absolute value. Some of you here have experienced this. It is independent of what the mind says. My value is independent of what my superego or anybody else’s superego says. It is independent of what happens… So this is one of the ways we can experience Essence – as value itself. Value can exist without any object. I am value. That is how Essence manifests. All the qualities of Essence are fundamental on this level, just as truth, for Essence, is not truth about something, it exists as truth.
Diamond Heart Book I, p. 84 • discuss »

Not Valuing Our Essence

There is another more universal and general reason why we don’t value our Essence. We talk here about how much of your suffering, how much of your conditioning resulted from the lack of love in your environment. Your environment wasn’t supportive, wasn’t loving, did not respond to you appropriately according to your needs, did not see your value. That is true. But we don’t see the fundamental thing that happened. The fundamental thing that happened, and the greatest calamity, is not that there was no love or support. The greater calamity which was caused by the first calamity is that you lost the connection to your Essence. That is much more important than whether your mother or father loved you or not. You lost your own love because of that.
Diamond Heart Book I, p. 125 • discuss »

Seeing Yourself as Value

So looking for value is looking for oneself. People ask, “What is the meaning of life, what is the value of life?” The answer is not in words, as you see. When you see yourself as value, it becomes much easier to let the Essence really unfold, in its beauty, its majesty, its grandeur, with its pleasures and joys. You will see, when you experience value in yourself, that value is the ground, the basis, of what we call the Personal Essence, what is in you that is you. You are based, then, in value. Value is so definite, so palpable, that it has a color, and a taste, and a texture.
Diamond Heart Book I, p. 86 • discuss »

Different Perspectives on Value

At the beginning of our journey, when we are not able to be ourselves, value appears more in terms of what our mind thinks is valuable. But when we are real, when we are genuine, sincere, we recognize that true value is actually the same as recognizing the truth of the moment. Then we experience a kind of value that is not mental, that is heartfelt, that makes our heart feel satisfied. As we progress on the journey, we recognize that the value of the experience is where we are, the presence of where we are. True Nature manifests its value directly by revealing its presence, not by camouflaging it in one form or another. Eventually, we reach the advanced stages of the journey where it is revealed that everything is itself and its nature—and hence inherently valuable, inherently beautiful, inherently precious. At that point, we realize that all manifestations, whether we can recognize them specifically or not, are that inherent value and preciousness of reality.
The Unfolding Now, p. 214 • discuss »

The Value of Existence

So you see, the value of existence at each moment is not the result of something else; it is its own nature, its own reality. It is not a matter of cause and effect. We do not value something because of something else. At the beginning stages of our work, we might be unclear or a little deluded and think that the reason we value reality is because it gives us a great experience or it makes us happy or it opens up some new capacities or it gives us some other benefit. It is true that it does all that. But the more clearly we recognize what is manifesting in the moment—what the meaning of the moment is, what teaching is manifesting through any particular form—the more we recognize that the very existence, the factness, the pure, self-existing value of each moment, is not related to a reason. Its value does not come from doing this or that; its value is inherent. When we recognize this inherent value of reality, when we experience it ourselves, our heart cannot help but be suffused with a sense of appreciation. And it’s not that we value it because we think it is great. The value is not something that I give to or impose on reality; the value is reality itself—or reality is the value.
The Unfolding Now, p. 216 • discuss »

Value Lies in the Immediacy of the Moment

To recognize inherent value, to experience it directly, is the same thing as being in the immediacy of the moment. And this is what allows our True Nature to manifest itself in a way that fulfills the heart, that fulfills life. We feel a sense of an inherent value. We understand that we don’t have to accomplish a thing in our life for our life to be worthwhile. Whether or not we have success, invent something, accomplish some difficult feat, create a great piece of art, write a bestseller, or become famous is secondary. None of those things is necessary for us to recognize our sense of value because value is not something that is accomplished; it is already here.
The Unfolding Now, p. 219 • discuss »

The Heart's Intimate Contact with the Moment

Value is truly nothing other than our heart’s intimate contact with the immediacy of the moment—with each moment, with where we are precisely. In that contact, in that being with and knowing reality as it is, we recognize the unquestionable rightness and preciousness of where we are and what we are. Nothing touches us more deeply than the implicit value of our own beingness. It is value beyond mind, beyond concepts, beyond ideals and hopes and dreams. This preciousness of simply being here now with awareness and understanding fills our heart with contentment and satisfaction. We realize that where we are, which is what we are, is also the most real and precious nature of life itself.
The Unfolding Now, p. 221 • discuss »

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