Love is the only source of energy that is not zero sum. If I gave you anything else, you will have more and I will have less. This is not so with love, the more love I give you, the more I have myself, the more you will have, and the more there will be in the world.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. author of The Millionth Circle:
How to Change Ourselves and The World
–The Essential Guide to Women’s Circles
and Like a Tree: How Trees, Women,
and Tree People Can Save the Planet
“This quote is by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., a wonderful yogi, Jungian analyst, and key person in the Millionth Circle, who always reminds us that we are forming a tipping point in shifting the culture of the world with the practice of gathering in circle. It is so true that love expands. The fable of scarcity so common in our society lends to the thinking that I must have more, what I’m giving away will mean I’ll have less, and I’ll be less important. Love makes every one of us larger, more precious, more present, and more engaged with others. So, I thank Jean for this thought about love, the great gift it is, and how it expands. And I thank her for her vision of the Millionth Circle, which indeed will bring us the world we wish to see, a world of peace, a world of cooperation, a world where there is enough, and where each of us is enough.”
Lauren J. Oliver, Ph.D. co-author of Circle Culture:
Tools for Cooperative Work
