Comforting Thought: Destiny doesn’t create success, determination does

By extension of reading the book Words of a Kaumātua by Haare Williams, you will also discover your own spiritual connection to time, place, people and community wherever you are – also known as tūrangawaeware. There is a spiritual weight and heft to this book that is capable of eliciting gasped intakes of breathe at the beauty of the language Williams uses.

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Find also

Haare Williams: A Child of the Community on e-Tangata

A Collection of Māori proverbs for you to keep and use

E Pii, e Paa: A poem by Haare Williams

 

Mana Wahine: The Female Moko in Māori Culture

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Preceding

Comforting Thought: Without darkness we wouldn’t see the stars

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Kua rongo aku au..

Ētahi ka tau ki tōna taumata

Nā te whai rawa rānei

Kō te tini maha ka ū tonu nā te kaha rawa

O tē whawhai manawapū

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I have learned that…

Some succeed

Because they are destined to

But most succeed

Because they’re determined to

~ Haare Williams, Words of a Kaumātua

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