Guidelines For Living

What is the true mark of a person?  His age, his worth, his ideas, or his accomplishments?  To the Eastern mind, a person is often measured by the length of his beard or the white of his hair.  Thus wisdom in the Orient is synonymous with age.  To the business person, worth is often considered to be the true mark of an individual.  We say this person is worth a cool million, meaning that he is worth a million dollars or whatever currency you use.  How the person made that money is not important.  It may have been through manipulation, or dishonest and deceitful business practices, and when we stop and think about life we have to conclude that worth is not necessarily the true mark of a man.