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, The Writing Life, 1989, Harper & Row

This quote keeps popping into my head, and the bit that comes before it (click the link for the full quotation). I keep accumulating, but with that I kill it all. I need to use it, else I’ll lose it.