Post by Christopher Miller

He rangatira koe ki ahau, nga mihi nui ki a koe. You are a person of great standing to me; heartfelt thanks to you. This phrase, shared with me this week was so inspiring and made me deeply appreciate the power of different languages around the world. In many cases, the spirit of what is conveyed is perhaps more important than the actual words. "Le cœur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point." — Blaise Pascal "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of." "Il paradiso è fatto di amore." — Dante Alighieri (paraphrased from the Divine Comedy) "Paradise is made of love." "Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori." — Virgil, Eclogues X "Love conquers all things; let us too yield to love." "دل عاشق به غیر از عشق چیزی نمی‌خواهد" — Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Masnavi "The heart that loves desires nothing but love itself." Amar es cuando el otro importa más que uno mismo." — Gabriel García Márquez "To love is when the other matters more than yourself." And as New Zealand / Aotearoa prepares to celebrate Matariki, one of my favourite phrases that captures the spirit of where our local and global priorities should be at this time is: "He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata." — Māori proverb "What is the greatest thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people." Today and in this moment, who are your most important people, and how do they know how you feel about them?