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—— He aha te kai o te rangatira. He kōrero, he kōrero, he kōrero. What is the food of a leader? It is knowledge. It is communication.
Rituals make beliefs real and tangible – they make them a ‘thing’. They ‘actualize’.
‘Life is no brief candle to me,’ wrote George Bernard Shaw, ‘It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.’
The word character comes from the Ancient Greek, kharakter, meaning the mark that is left on a coin during its manufacture. Character is also the mark left on you by life, and the mark we leave on life.
