Ancestral Memory Quotes

“The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“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, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“From the very core of each of them, their ancestors seemed to cry out in inarticulate voices. right then, they screamed in alarm from times before symbols and language could depict such things that hunted and meant murder.”
― Adam Nevill, The Ritual

“We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Forge your path. Crack your ancestors wide open. By any means necessary, unearth your roots.”
― Gabby Rivera, America #7

“It's hard enough judging the motives of people who live in our own times, let alone the motives of those who've been dead three hundred years. They can't come back and tell us, can they?”
― Susanna Kearsley, The Winter Sea

“What is the most profound difference between between us, between you and me? You already know it. It's these ancestral memories. Mine come at me in the full glare of awareness. Yours work from your blind side. Some call it instinct or fate. The memories apply leverages to each of us - on what we think and what we do. You think you are immune to such influences? I am Galileo. I stand here and tell you: 'Yet it moves.' That which moves can exert its force in ways no mortal power ever before dared stem. I am here to dare this.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“We do not brag about ancestors that were not great”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“A plaited link exists between every person and his or her ancestors, not simply through genealogical records, but in the same manner that the soul of a child, from which we sprang from, traces a direct connection to the matured soul of the adult.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“You are each born with the conscious knowledge of what has come before. Your brain is far from an empty slate, waiting for the first imprint of experience; it is already equipped with complete "equations", telling you who you are and where you have come from. Nor do you wipe that slate clean, symbolically speaking, before you write your life upon it. Instead, you draw upon what has gone before: the experiences of your ancestors, back through time immemorial.”
― Jane Roberts, The Nature of the Psyche: Its Human Expression

“Ancient generations passed down wisdom that all succeeding generations must apply and build upon. We are constantly learning how to interpret the past, not simply ancient history, but also from variegated educational encounters experienced in our own lifetime. We must listen to the voices of our ancestors whom passed along their hopes and dreams. We must also listen to our own youthful voice that optimistically projected the best type of world for us to live in and pass along to future generations of compassionate persons. The collective voices of passionate mavens of nature linked through time created the world that we now enjoy and together they shall alter this world in a profound manner for other people to witness and explore.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“None of our ancestors gave us any particular reason to be proud of them. Except for a rare few, they were all morons and they built of a world of moronity. That is more reason for us to be the first civilized ancestors to our descendants who are just born or yet to be born.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“I understand I am a Creole; Alkabulan - Europeans
The blood of two sworn enemies flowing into my veins
My European ancestors have enslaved me
My Alkabulan ancestors have freed me
To me, it is clear; who loves and cares about me
And who is using and taking advantage of me”
― Ricardo Derose

“Once in memory, always in history.”
― Levi Ramos

“This is the night when the gateway between our world and the
spirit world is thinnest.
Tonight is a night to call out those who came before.
Tonight, I honor my ancestors.
Spirits of my fathers and mothers, I call to you tonight and welcome
you to join me.
You watch over me always, protecting and guiding me, and tonight I
thank you.
Your blood runs in my veins.
Your spirit is in my heart.
Your memories are in my soul.
With the gift of memory, I remember all of you.
You are dead but never forgotten, and you live on within me and
those who are yet to come”
― Renée Jaggér, Birth of a Goddess

“Yesterday, she said, referring to the collective past of her tribe, the people of these forests knew the secret. They made the finest silk thread from the cocoon of a beautiful sleeping butterfly. The women reeled the silk thread on the spinning wheel, slowly and gently. Such delicate work it was, that the silk remembered, at last, the moth which had created it. And the women were awed at the silver shine of the silk produced. If the silk is so divine, they thought, what must be the beauty of the butterfly waiting to be born? They stopped breaking the cocoons and looked for the crimson wings of the butterflies emerging from the torn nests of raw silk. The sight took them aback. They became sages and storytellers. My mother’s mother was one of them.”
― Lidija Stankovikj, The Outcasts - A Thousand Dreams of Redemption

“According to studies led by Dr. Allan C. Wilson of the University of California, there is genetic evidence that the entire human species arose from a single female in North Africa between 140,000 and 280,000 years ago. In other words, it is conceivable that we all started from the womb of a single woman.
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Or would we find an even greater mystery, that the whole pantheon of our reality was somehow contained in the wobbling mind of that creature, who fell down to thank her raw new gods after a panther leaped at her throat, and by a miracle missed devouring us all.”
― Whitley Strieber, Communion: A True Story