Not just any talk is a conversation
In Women Moving the Edge we had lots and lots of real deep conversations. It is better to call them dialogues; and it were true generative dialogues. I want to share this with you, which was sent to me during these days:
Not just any talk is conversation,
not any talk raises consciousness.
A subject can be talked to death,
a person talked to sleep.
Good conversation has an edge:
it opens your eyes to something,
it quickens your ears.
And good conversation reverberates:
it keeps on talking in your mind later in the day;
the next day, you find yourself still conversing with what was said.
The reverberation afterward is the very raising of consciousness.
Your mind has been moved,
you are at another level with your reflections.
James Hillman