ItвЂ™s the core of meaning in life, and itвЂ™s not an illusion. You live for the discovery of that relationship when youвЂ™re engaged in an artistic pursuit. ItвЂ™s predicated on that observation we each have something to offer each other and something vital, and you know that if you engage in a real conversation with someone вЂ“ a meaningful conversation that suspends your sense of fragile mortality for a moment вЂ“ you understand that in that communication between people, something of inestimable value emerges that you have to pursue and if you live for that, you live for that relationship with yourself. вЂњThe idea that each individual вЂ“ even criminals, murderers & the worst and most reprehensible people have to be treated with the respect due a divinity because we partake in the capacity to extract habitable order from chaos with our consciousness, with our speech and with our capacity to communicate and we recognize insofar as we each recognize the other as valuable. вЂњThereвЂ™s something about the human being вЂ“ whatever it is that makes us conscious that interacts with the chaotic potential that constitutes reality and extracts out from that the order within which we live and that thereвЂ™s something divine about that, and thatвЂ™s the value of the human being. Jordan B Peterson is a professor and clinical psychologist at the psychology department, University of Toronto.

Here are some notes I have culled from the youtube talks by Jordan Peterson вЂ“ the bits that struck a chord with me.

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