Ancestral Wounds Quotes

“Never venture near the toxic family war zone without your security detail of angels, spirit guides, and ancestors by your side.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Does history give us any hope for this kind of pragmatic and pluralistic perspective? . . .Today, amid our latest addiction epidemics, we are faced with another precious and rare opportunity for synthesis, and I have hope that we can unite around an inclusive definition of recovery as being any kind of positive change. But in order to do so, we will need to turn to the pain of our shared past, because, as in the case of individual addictions, pain and purpose are so often intertwined, and our despair comes from somewhere. The suffering of addiction is not an individual malady—it also comes from deep, ancestral wounds. We need to face that fact too, in order to fully recover, together.”
― Carl Erik Fisher, The Urge: Our History of Addiction

“Genuine and love and the concentrated devotion it involves - "all your heart, and all your soul, and all your might" - is so hard and demands such accumulated wisdom and experience that it might be the fruit only of many generations. Not every generation in a family will necessarily be capable of love. And even when one generation is capable of it, the effort and responsibility for a long moral inheritance - and so for a whole history of fateful choices, deeds, and experiences - might cause its members to slip back into carelessness and forgetfulness.”
― Simon May, Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion

“Never venture near the toxic family war zone without your security detail of angels, spirit guides and ancestors by your side.”
― Anthon St. Maarten