If using this power I go out and take advantage of another, it means my misuse of what I have just heard.

I do not teach you to be “good”, but to be creative in expressing this great talent. Do not bury it even if, in using it, you make mistakes.

Yet it is better to misuse it than to bury it, for even by the misuse we learn, though painfully. In the story of the talents it was only the one who did not use it that was condemned.

Now, some got one, some two, some got five.

then my talents will run from five to ten and to twenty

then I am not the good servant who took the five talents and expanded them; I am the one who buried it

Now, a talent that is not exercised, like a muscle that is not exercised, finally sleeps

To one he gives five talents, to another he gives two, and to another he gives one – “every man according to his several ability.”

prove you have accepted it by taking the talent received and expand it

But its abuse in undue repression breeds a sterility, which robs a man of actual wealth of experience. Imagining novel solutions to ever more complex problems is far more noble than to restrain or kill out desire.