is given a bowl filled with light.
The light is the child's unique potential
the gift it brings to the community.
As the child grows up,
this happens to everyone,
are placed in the bowl.
Some are put in by others
some by the child itself.
As the stones fill the bowl
becomes heavier
increasingly difficult
carry and the light becomes duller.
Sometimes it is buried from sight
but it doesn't ever go away completely.
Inevitably, there comes a time
when the work of emptying the stones
From the bowl must begin.
in the work enemy is fear.
Oral teaching from the ancient Kahuna tradition of Hawaii.
Molokai: 1993
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