Everything has Mauri. Everything a life force. Everything – be it animate or inanimate.

Neke recently done a post which included this subject herself. I have borrowed her definition below.

Mauri: ‘Mauri is an energy which binds and animates all things in the physical world.’

(Taken from: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/te-ao-marama-the-natural-world/page-5)