Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is no…

Annie Dillard
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Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes. ✨ Annie Dillard (2016). The Abundance, p.88, Canongate Books
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Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes. ✨ Annie Dillard (2016). The Abundance, p.88, Canongate Books

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