Economics and lovenomics.

Money doesn't grow when you give it, but love does.

When love is scarce

When love is scarce, you have to portion it out carefully.

You can’t afford to give it to strangers.

You may not even have enough for yourself.

You may allocate some for yourself and people you care about.

Or allocate some for them and nothing for yourself. Or the reverse.

People make these trade-offs when love is scarce.

It’s scarce because they think love love is like money—when you give it to someone you don’t have it anymore.

Love is like knowledge

Love and knowledge—unlike money—grow when given or shared.

Let’s consider knowlege.

When you share or give knowledge, you don’t have less

You have at least what you started with; you often have more.

Whoever you gave it to has the knowledge that they have been willing to receive—which might be what you gave—or less—or even more.

Receiving knowledge is not automatic; it requires skill—just as giving knowledge does

Giving and sharing love are also skills.

As I wrote in another post, loving is a skill.

And so is receiving love.

An abundance of love

When you practice giving and receiving love, you will find that love will grow into abundance.

When you have more than enough love for yourself and the people you most care about, you will find you have love available for others.

Since you have that love, you need only give it and share it.

And then you will have more.

After you give love to people who you deem “deserving,” you will have more.

You will have enough to give to people who you might deem “undeserving.”

Enough for anyone and everyone.

Practice

You don’t need to believe this.

You can simply try it.

Practice giving more love to the people you already love.

See if you don’t have more to give.

Then keep giving it to have more.