Aloha Spirit Law

A Aloha Spirit Law é uma verdadeira lei escrita do Estado do Hawaii constante dos Hawai`i Revised Statutes, secção 5-7.5 e reconhece o chamado Aloha Spirit enquanto a filosofia funcional que presidia à actuação dos Hawaiianos nativos, consubstanciado uma oferta ao povo do Hawaii (a tradução é minha). Esta lei é vinculativa para todos os funcionários públicos.

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The Aloha Spirit Law[§5-7.5]



(a) The Aloha Spirit is the coordination of mind and heart within each person. It brings each person to the Self. Each person must think and emote good feelings to others. In the contemplation and presence of the life force, Aloha:



• Akahai, meaning kindness to be expressed with tenderness;



• Lôkahi, meaning unity, to be expressed with harmony;



• `Olu`olu, meaning agreeable, to be expressed with pleasantness;



• Ha`aha`a, meaning humility, to be expressed with modesty;



• Ahonui, meaning patience, to be expressed with perseverance.
These are traits of character that express the charm, warmth and sincerity of Hawaii's people. It was the working philosophy of native Hawaiians and was presented as a gift to the people of Hawaii.



Aloha is more than a word of greeting or farewell or a salutation.



Aloha means mutual regard and affection and extends warmth in caring with no obligation in return.



Aloha is the essence of relationships in which each person is important to every other person for collective existence.



Aloha means to hear what is not said, to see what cannot be seen and to know the unknowable.



(b) In exercising their power on behalf of the people and in fulfillment of their responsibilities, obligations and service to the people, the legislature, governor, lieutenant governor, executive officers of each department, the chief justice, associate justices, and judges of the appellate, circuit, and district courts may contemplate and reside with the life force and give consideration to The Aloha Spirit. [L 1986, c 202, §1]