Ideas grow best in the space between two minds.
From A Pocket Guide to Being Human, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
Two men sat at the far end of the bench by the ball field today, arguing about whether the oak at the corner was dying or only slow. Neither of them won. But by the time they got up, the one who said dying was talking about the drought three summers back, and the other was saying maybe the roots, and they had built a thing between them that neither had carried in. I used to think a thought was finished before it was spoken, that talking was just the delivery of it, which is what you believe when you spend your days alone in a tree. Ideas grow best in the space between two minds. Switch has heard me say half a sentence and finished it wrong, and the wrong ending was better than mine, and I still do not know what to do with that.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
Have it on something
More like it
- To have the same conversation with another that you have with yourself takes a pure heart.
- It doesn’t all fit because it’s not all needed.
- How I breathe is how I live.
- It is impossible to breathe slowly and rush anything else.
- You wouldn't hurt this bad if you didn't care this much.
- Up is the place to go, not the thing to give.