Ancestral Practices Quotes

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.

The destruction of Chinese traditional culture didn't start in 1949. It started long before that, with the succession of revolutions. It was particularly bad during the Cultural Revolution, the destruction of traditional Chinese culture.

My ancestors had to keep their customs secret for fear of death or persecution, so it's common to be secretive and discreet about Regla de Ocha. But it's my family's spirituality, so I don't want to keep it secret.

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

I find great joy in tradition, and, in fact, I seek it.

It does not follow … that a procedure settled in English law at the time of the emigration, and brought to this country and practiced by our ancestors, is an essential element of due process of law. If that were so, the procedure of the first half of the 17th century would be fastened upon the American jurisprudence like a straightjacket, only to be unloosed by constitutional amendment

If you plan on continuing a tradition, it might be a good idea to find out just what tradition it is that you intend to continue.

I think we have a lot to learn from ancient cultures and different tribes.

Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.

The vows we take in the holy place bind us till we are purged of them at Inanda's Kraal. Till then no blood must be shed and no flesh eaten. It was the fashion of our forefathers.

Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.

Rituals are magical.

It takes a lifetime to build tradition.

Tradition, in its essence, is something simultaneously meta-historical and dynamic: it is an overall ordering force in the service of principles that have the chrism of a superior legitimacy (we may even call them 'principles from above').

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet.

I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.

We should train kids in the music and dance of our legends. That's how we can keep the traditions alive.

I think we have powerful role-models among us in the American West. Certainly the Hopis, a timeless civilization that understands sustainability and what that means about living in harmony, in tandem with the natural world. We have much to learn from them, and they will survive us, I feel certain about that.

I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge? What stories did they tell while weaving strips of bulrush into baskets? How did daughters bury their mothers and exercise their grief? What were the secret rituals of women? I feel certain they must have been tied to birds.

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it