Good conversation

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, 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.
That reverberation afterwards is the very raising of consciousness;
Your mind’s been moved. You are at another level with your reflections.

James Hillman, We’ve Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World’s Getting Worse