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"I think one more thing I'll talk about, as far as a medicine for us is what I call our deep time ancestral inheritance. In a culture again, here in this country where our only focus is on the future and on progress, we forget that we are the inheritors of this enormous reservoir of wisdom. We survive. We're here today because of survival, of a cap
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But such memories are woven from gossamer threads; time eats holes in the fabric, and these she must darn with myth and fable.
Abraham Verghese • The Covenant of Water (Oprah's Book Club)
A human life is nothing in itself; it is part of a family tree. We are continuously living the ancestral life, reaching back for centuries, we are satisfying the appetites of unknown ancestors, nursing instincts which we think are our own, but which are quite incompatible with our character; we are not living our own lives, we are paying the debts
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