Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?
Amin MaaloufStichwörter: life happiness family ancestors
No one can be free who has a thousand ancestors.
L.M. MontgomeryHere 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 SpenceStichwörter: dead fairies fairy ancestors ancestor
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 MaraboliStichwörter: imagination god religion limits ancestors
There was no need for a term like ‘magical thinking’ in the Golden Age of Man...there was only genuine everyday magic and mysticism. Children were not mocked or scolded in those days for singing to the rain or talking to the wind.
Anthon St. MaartenStichwörter: imagination fantasy psychology creativity magic religious-freedom self-expression mysticism beliefs magick ancient-wisdom esoteric-wisdom magical-thinking psychology-spirituality ancestors golden-age free-thinking traditional religion-and-science cultural-history child-development primitive-religion ancient-culture
Dychwelyd i wlad eich hynafiaid; gwaed yn galw i waed.
Return to the land of your fathers; blood calls to blood.
Stichwörter: magic ancestors wales
He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.
Helen OyeyemiStichwörter: writing ancestors offering
Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.
Tad WilliamsWe're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us.
Liam CallananStichwörter: death ghosts ancestors liam-callanan the-cloud-atlas
It is surprising to me that one of the great crimes of history has gone unnoticed; the abduction of god by religions. This slight-of-hand has been the cause of countless blood-shed and has been found at the root of innumerable acts of evil. The argument continues today, as to which religion the true god belongs, when what would be most healing and empowering is to free god from the shackles of religious limitation and judgment. It is by emancipating god from the ignorance of our ancestors that we become empowered to explore and express our own relationship with what god may or may not be.
Steve MaraboliStichwörter: history god religion relationship ancestors empowered
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