Ancestral Guidance Quotes

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

When your thirteen colonies won their freedom from Great Britain you took a brand from our council fire and kindled your own fire. Now the same fire is trying to consume the very people who taught you the worth of such a fire. The hand that guided and protected your ancestors is now open to you for justice.

We are not separate and independent entities, but like links in a chain, and we could not by any means be what we are without those who went before us and showed us the way.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

I feel that the ancestors are that covering that will cover me. I feel like I can only be enveloped in them spiritually and physically.

At the most one could say that his chi or ... personal god was good. But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also. Okonkwo said yes very strongly; so his chi agreed.

Follow in the footsteps of your fathers' virtue! How could you hope to climb high unless your fathers' will climbs with you?

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

Don’t choose a straight path. And don’t reject a winding one. Choose the path your ancestors have trod.

If you remember your ancestors, they can cross over and be with you again.

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them... Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today

There's a rich legend of this in other cultures, this speaking with ancestors. The Christian mystics communicated with angels.

When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

We clasp the hands of those who go before us.

The further along we get on our life journey the more we wonder about those who traveled before us and paved the road.

The dead are dead but they rely on us to fulfill their hopes.

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'

I did marry, I did get pregnant, but as I was giving birth, my daughter and I almost died. We were rushed to the hospital. I had an emergency cesarean and in that moment, in the emergency room, I felt my grandmother come to me. She was with me and when my daughter was born, instead of naming her Hailey, I named her Lucy after my grandmother. Hailey lives in the pages of my books.

Ancestral voices prophesying war.

The dead don't die. They look on and help.

I believe there is a strong familial pull as the influence of beloved ancestors continues with us from the other side of the veil.