Our spiritual growth occurs from 10-1: from love to fear.

Our human growth occurs from 1-10: from fear to love.

From this we understand that whiro (death) is both the end and the beginning.

Everything is constituted of whakaaro, of thoughts.

Whakaaro mahara (our individual thoughts) play a significant role in our growth.

Whaka means act. 

Aro means desire.

Whakaaro mean the act of desire. Thoughts are acts of desire.

IO is always complete. 

Behind every thought is a desire and that desire is to be complete. This is the universal desire to return to wholeness. 

Whakaaro are transient. Whakaaro come from the outside and then they go. A whakaaro mahara is a thought that has become internal, a thought you have inherited or something that arises within you.  They are not yet influenced by anything from outside.

But ... see taniwha ...