Ancestral Wisdom Quotes

“retire the "coulda woulda shoulda" rhetoric and replace with "I can, I will, I shall." power lives in affirmative and declarative statements.”
― Ofelia Nibari

“the pen of the faithful is mightier than the sword of the destroyer.”
― Ofelia Nibari

“storytelling is prehistoric.
it existed before the written word and will exist long after all the books have been banned. return to oral traditions. let our children hear our stories.”
― Ofelia Nibari

“sunflowers drop seeds for free.

just
like
me.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“the tree is where the fruit is born.”
― Ofelia Nibari

“birth the dream.
feel it move through you until it is out of you.
nurture it.
raise it.
and never be afraid of where it could go.”
― Ofelia Nibari

“don't discount who you are,
to appease
who they arent.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“stand

in

your

agency.

-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“the spaces between stanzas
the suspenses of pregnant pauses,
the ellipsis at the end of unfinished sentences
thoughts,
is where I am given permission to
breathe.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“entre tu y yo,
me perdiste.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“respirate en el manos
de
Dios.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“big back
doing big tings.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“disrupt,
interrupt,
deconstruct,
the narratives that contribute to your spiritual oppression.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“love cultivation > fear indoctrination.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“use your knees to pray and worship. not to beg.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“cuidar a la tierra como te cuidas la alma.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“come outside. the birds are singing awaiting your presence.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“affirm.
confirm.
discern.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“elevate what resonates. this is how we generate good karma and feed the collective.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“be it the lack of letters at the end of my name,
or the letters in mychart,
you cannot deny my flame,
you cannot take away my
art.
-ON”
― Ofelia Nibari

“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..”
― Lidija Stankovikj, The Outcasts - A Thousand Dreams of Redemption

“I am protected by energy you are not prepared
to deal with”
― unknown author

“Whenever I think
this life, these choices, this path
is mine alone
My spiritual, karmic, generational inheritance
swells in me
telling me
there is no such thing as

Tabula Rasa”
― Sarah Thompson, Murmurations

“You must first say, I am, before others will say, you are.”
― Dr. Sheka Hassan Kanu

“Fu or yeh nor ru." There is nothing meaningless in this world or everything happens for a reason.”
― Haja Fatmatta R. Kanu

“Even in the most structured, technological lives, our primal instincts are waiting to be reawakened.”
― Ken Breniman, Subversive Acts of Humanity: A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

“Modern life has domesticated us. We wake to alarms, live by schedules, and often feel disconnected from the natural rhythms that sustained our ancestors for millennia.”
― Ken Breniman, Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

“Even if we have never met, we belong to each other. And how do I know we belong to each other? Because I have been weaving you into my braids since the times before my time.”
― Lorena Saavedra Smith, Awaken Your Roots: Reclaim Your Ancestry and Sovereignty by Heeding the Jaguar’s Call

“We may have a lot of romantic ideas about Nature, but it has both a heavy and light aspect. Nature, as our primal ancestor and source of life, has the power to devour, destroy, and even abort us. We must learn to discern when we are approaching Nature with arrogance or the need to dominate, even if these attitudes lie beneath the surface.”
― Lorena Saavedra Smith, Awaken Your Roots: Reclaim Your Ancestry and Sovereignty by Heeding the Jaguar’s Call

“I wish for you, beloved friend, to practice moving through anger in ways that support all of us to create the world we want for our grandchildren.”
― Lorena Saavedra Smith, Awaken Your Roots: Reclaim Your Ancestry and Sovereignty by Heeding the Jaguar’s Call