Living the Aloha Spirit
This is a nationwide program initiated and sponsored by the Hawai‘i America250 Commission.
250 years ago, the signers of the Declaration of Independence taught us vital lessons of personal responsibility, service, and sacrifice, with their mutual “pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor” to protect the “unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”.
As we contemplate and plan for the next 250 years, especially in a time of increasing polarization, we individually and collectively have the responsibility of working together to realize the aspirations that the framers committed to in the Charters of Freedom (Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, and Bill of Rights). Hawai‘i has a lot to offer to the process of fulfilling this. We are asking others to join us by including the “Aloha Spirit” in how we move forward, wherever you live.
As we look to the future and commit ourselves to making wherever we are a better place, we can learn from, reflect upon, and take actions in our community following the core principles of the Aloha Spirit: kindness, expressed with tenderness; unity, expressed with harmony; agreeable, expressed with pleasantness; humility, expressed with modesty; and patience, expressed with perseverance. (The Aloha Spirit is in Hawai‘i State Law, §5-7.5 Hawai‘i Revised Statutes.)
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If we act with courtesy and caring (core to the Aloha Spirit), Hawai‘i, America, and the World will be strengthened.