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Mary Kawena Pukui Quotes
4 sourced quotes from Mary Kawena Pukui across Hoʻoponopono.
“Hoʻoponopono — literally, to make right, to set right, to correct. The Hawaiian way of family.”
“In the old way, when one person in the family fell ill, the whole family came together to clean — because illness was understood to live in the broken relationships, not in the body alone.”
“Pono is right relationship — between self and self, self and family, self and land, self and the unseen. Everything restored to its proper place.”
“In the original family hoʻoponopono, the elder gathered everyone, the wronged spoke, the wrongdoer spoke, both said the four phrases, and the matter was placed in a stone and buried at sea. It did not return.”