Good conversation

Not just any talk is conversation; not any talk raises consciousness.
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 afterward 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