Beginning to read Heidegger’s “On the way to language” a dialog between a German and a Japanese philosopher with such tiny gems: “How is one to give a name to what he is still searching for? To assign the nameng word is, after all, what constitutes finding.” And “…we may confidently entrust ourselves to the hidden drift of our dialogue…as long as we remain inquirers….You do not mean that we are pumping each other, out of curiosity, but…but rather that we go right on releasing into the open whatever might be said.” These few lines from the first of this small work express the some of the gems of experience when trust and openness can prevail.
