The Bowl of Light

 Wisdom from Hale Kealohalani Makua

“Each of us comes into the world from the great beyond with our bowl of light.” The light was a gift from your ‘Aumakua, your immortal spiritual soul that divided itself before you were born.   This light nourishes us and sustains us as we pass through life—but as we grow in experience and wisdom, things happen.

Sometimes we lie. Sometimes we steal. And sometimes we injure others through our thoughts, our actions or our words…. Slowly through time our bowl of light fills up with stones, and our light dims until it is nearly gone…

Hopefully, we wake up to what is going on and discover what we are doing…At that moment, we become aware that our bowl of light is almost filled with stones and that there’s almost no light shining forth.

And you know what we do then? 

We simply dump it out! 

We start over then, but from that time forward, things are different.  From then on, we begin to live our lives with awareness, braided with the cords of aloha.  And it is then, precisely then, that we begin to walk our path as spiritual warriors.”

From “The Bowl of Light” by Dr. Hank Wesselman, Sounds True, Inc. Publishers