There is an ancient
Hawaiian story that says ......
Each child has, at birth,
a bowl of perfect light.
If he tends to his light,
it will grow in strength and
he can do all things
swim with sharks,
fly with the birds,
know and understand all things.
If however, he becomes
envious, jealous, angry, or fearful,
he drops a stone into his bowl of light
and some of the light goes out.
Light and Stone can not hold the same space.
If he continues to
put stones in the bowl,
the light will go out and
he will become a stone himself.
A stone does not grow,
nor does it move.
If at any time he tires
of being a stone,
all he needs to do is
turn the bowl upside down
and the stones will fall away and
the light will grow once more.
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