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#ancestor

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I don’t think my journey has to be harrowing to be important. Simply doing the tasks of the day is enough. Such as getting up every morning to go to work to support my family and sacrificing personal time in service to others, teaching my children to give thanks for what they have and to care for others.


Mike Ericksen


#family #journey #legacy #mormon #sacrafice

That sure as fuck ain't no cow


Scott Sigler


#cow #horror #scott-sigler #thriller #thriller

When we illuminate the road back to our ancestors, they have a way of reaching out, of manifesting themselves...sometimes even physically.


Raquel Cepeda


#ancestry #illumination #inspirational #journey #journey-in-life

Crafts make us feel rooted, give us a sense of belonging and connect us with our history. Our ancestors used to create these crafts out of necessity, and now we do them for fun, to make money and to express ourselves.


Phyllis George


#belonging #connect #crafts #create #express

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.


Plutarch


#belongs #desirable #glory #indeed #our

Just because I don't believe in YOUR God doesn't mean I don't believe in God. I just choose not to be bound by the limits of your imagination or those of your ancestors.


Steve Maraboli


#god #imagination #limits #religion #experience

More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory or, more specifically, our natural ability to carry the past in our bodies and minds. Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation. I quietly thank this ancestor of mine for surviving the trip so that I could one day return.


Raquel Cepeda


#ancestral-continuum #ancestral-dna #ancestral-memory #journeying #life-journey

Here it is necessary briefly to consider the question of the cult of ancestors before venturing farther. The spirits of the departed are believed to be possessed of supernatural powers which they did not enjoy in the flesh. They may also be dissatisfied or malignant in consequence of being suddenly deprived of life, and if they are neglected by the living, are apt to be revengeful. Therefore they must be cajoled and propitiated. Fear of beings belonging to a mysterious state or sphere of which he knew nothing continually haunted and terrified primitive man and induced in him what is known as" the dread of the sacred." It was every man's personal duty to attend to the demands or requirements of his deceased ancestors. At first he would succour his own immediate forebears with food and gifts; but it must have been borne in upon him that when his parents joined the great majority, the care of the spirits of their parents likewise devolved upon him... and, by degrees, he might even come to regard himself as responsible for the well-being of a line of spirit ancestors of quite formidable genealogy. These, through his neglect, might starve in their tombs; or, alternatively, they might crave his company. Because of vengeance or loneliness they might send disease upon him, for the savage almost invariably believes illness to be brought about by the action of jealous or neglected ancestors. The loneliness of the spirit-world is the dead man's greatest excuse for desiring the company of his descendants.


Lewis Spence


#ancestors #dead #fairies #fairy #food

Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.


Voltaire


#country #his #need #serves #well

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.


Joan D. Vinge


#balance #established #fragile #human #humans






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