Using Talents Without Feeding Ego

"I’m curious about talents and gifts. Some of us seem to have natural abilities that culture magnifies. How do we navigate this without feeding ego? Rupert says: ‘Your talents and gifts are neutral. They can be used in the service of love and understanding. They can be used in the service of the sense of separation. You have certain talents and interests and a certain level of intelligence and skills, and all of those are available to you, and they are in themselves neutral. Some talents are special. That doesn’t make you special. To attribute the qualities of your talents to yourself, to be aggrandised or diminished by one’s talents, by the faculties of one’s mind or body, that’s the ego. When your sense of yourself is qualified by the content of your experience. But in the absence of that, if you don’t allow your sense of yourself to be dictated by the quality of your mind and your body, the faculties of your mind and body still remain available for you to use in the service of love and understanding.’"

From event 05 - 12 October, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Garrison Institute, 5–12 October 2025

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