Whenever I walk, sit, eat, or practice calligraphy, I do so with the awareness that all my ancestors are within me in that moment. I am their continuation. Whatever I am doing, the energy of mindfulness enables me to do it as “us,” not as “me.”

Acknowledging ancestral stories and then seeing through them is part of becoming fully human. Everyone has to work beside someone who was an enemy of their own tribe in ages past. Everyone has an ancestor who did something appalling. The stories you have about your ancestors are stories you have about your own burdens and possibilities and capacity

There is an Indigenous tribe from the Daly River region in Northern Australia called the Ngangikurungkurr, whose name translates as ‘Deep Water Sounds’ or ‘Sounds of the Deep.’ For the Ngangikurungkurr, it is understood that there is a deep spring of story within that calls on each of us. In order for us to live in harmony with the soul, we must li

If we look into one cell of our body or one cell of our consciousness, we recognize the presence of all the generations of ancestors in us. Our ancestors are not only human beings. Before human beings appeared, we were other species. We have been trees, plants, grasses, minerals, a squirrel, a deer, a monkey, and one-celled animals. All these gener