{"quotes":[{"text":"Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.","author":"Tad Williams","tags":["ancestors","funny"],"id":6957,"author_id":"Tad+Williams"},{"text":"The time is come,' he spoke quietly. 'Now, when lesser folk would wither, thou must be true to the blood of thine ancestors. Much greatness is bred in thee; accept now this terrible mantle and take a step nearer thy destiny.","author":"Robin Jarvis","tags":["ancestors","destiny","greatness"],"id":9055,"author_id":"Robin+Jarvis"},{"text":"Our Ancestors came to Australia, foraged for food in a rain forest where AM grew, ate the AM, and suffered the effects of muscimol hallucinations in a cave and drew paintings of a religious nature and these paintings were confirmed at 50,000 years ago, at the exact inception of religion. This was done by a species that never had religion before that. Since the species would therefore have no religious content until they ate the hallucinogens, it follows that these AM were the start of religion.","author":"Leviak B. Kelly","tags":["amanita-muscaria","ancestors","religion"],"id":9502,"author_id":"Leviak+B.+Kelly"},{"text":"The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["ancestors","before","behave","good","health","industrial","like","revolution","secret"],"id":15030,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["ancestors","ancient","education","great-people","history","inspirational","knowledge","literature","philosophy","wisdom","wise"],"id":21284,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"All pre-Abrahamic cultures understood the tremendous importance of remaining closely connected to the past if the present was to be invested with any spiritually significant meaning. They also understood that the most personally relevant and accessible portal to the empowering wisdom and goodness of the past was through their own direct ancestors, those who shared their particular bloodline and DNA. It was for this reason that all traditional cultures engaged in what is often called ancestor worship (pitri-puja). There is no pre-Abrahamic culture on Earth that did not honor its ancestors in one form or another. This is a very important spiritual practice and tradition that used to be practiced universally by families in the ancient past. The process of ancestor worship now needs to be revived in the modern world if we are to not lose our sacred connection with our own cultural-spiritual heritage. Ancestor worship must become a regular practice again.","author":"Dharma Pravartaka Acharya","tags":["abrahamic","ancestors","bloodline","dna","spirituality"],"id":29384,"author_id":"Dharma+Pravartaka+Acharya"},{"text":"The human story is one of continual branching movement, out of Africa to every corner of the globe. When people talk of blood and soil, as if their ancestors sprung fully formed from the earth of a particular place, it involves a kind of forgetting.(Hari Kunzru).","author":"Carolina De Robertis","tags":["ancestors","history","roots-of-origin"],"id":34487,"author_id":"Carolina+De+Robertis"},{"text":"All our ancestors were murdered, murderers, complicit to murder, or combating murder.","author":"Lucy Knisley","tags":["ancestors","europe","genealogy","genocide","history","holocaust","murder","travel","travelogue"],"id":36835,"author_id":"Lucy+Knisley"},{"text":"Over the course of the millennia, all these multitudes of ancestors, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time—to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another like you. You have been given a tremendous responsibility. You carry the hopes and dreams of all those who have gone before. Hopes and dreams for a better world. What will you do with your time on this Earth? How will you contribute to the ongoing story of humankind?","author":"Laurence Overmire","tags":["ancestors","genealogy","generations","history","responsibility"],"id":40761,"author_id":"Laurence+Overmire"},{"text":"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.","author":"Raquel Cepeda","tags":["ancestors","ancestry","build","building-blocks","globe-trotting","inspiration","journey","life-experience","morocco","sahara","sahara-desert","sand","spiritual-journey","trek","trekking"],"id":41471,"author_id":"Raquel+Cepeda"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":90,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}