What is the worth of the soul? Is the worth of a soul high enough that you would forgo life here and now in order to assure it a good place in the hereafter? Or is the worth of a soul low enough that it is better to let the soul die inside of you then to step out of the ruts and live life how you feel it needs to be lived in order to survive. Maybe a better question would be, what is a soul. To qualify my remarks I would have to say that my definition of the soul is that it is the essence of who you are, the body merely being the shell and tool of the soul whereby it gathers information through the senses.

Based on this definition then, what is the worth of the soul? Well, anytime a merchant is determining the worth of something, I would suppose he or she would use some basic techniques to determine that worth. They would need to determine the value of the object to those who may be appreciating or purchasing it. So right off we can see that worth can be a very transient thing. Let us take, for an example, a baseball card. Now, if anyone were to come to me and hold up a baseball card and say to me, “This is a such and such card, its worth is $150.00, but I am willing to sell it to you for $100.00”. I would simply raise my eyebrows and probably start to laugh because to me, that little baseball card does not have even the $100.00 value. However, to a baseball card collector, the value, and hence the worth of the card would likely match the seller’s.

Based on this then, is the worth of the soul and its value dependent on other people? Not necessarily, the worth of the soul would be judged on whose shoulders you place the determining of its value. If, for example, you decide that the value of your soul is determined by people around you, then you will never decide what the worth of your soul is because to different people it will be valued differently. My conclusion being that you need to find the worth of your own soul and that its value is determined by yourself and whether others around you accept the value and hence the worth of your soul is not important. Perhaps once we find the value of our own souls, we can learn to value the incredible diversity of those around us and society could only grow stronger.