20/03/2026
Destiny and the Ancestors Within
"We can do a little meditation on this. Close your eyes and feel your parents in your bodies. There is nothing in us that did not initially come from our parents. We are our parents. So internally we make ourselves wide until we can feel both our parents inside. And we feel them as they really are and were without wishing that they had been different somehow.
In the same way you also feel your grandparents inside you now, and the great-grandparents, all the people who belonged to the family, including those who died early. We can feel them all in our bodies. We agree to them all and to ourselves being inside our bodies. We cuddle up to them, so to speak. We let them hold us, and we become one with them. In this moment we experience our special fate: through our parents, through our ancestors, but also through our own actions and our guilt. And we agree to this fate: "Yes, this is my fate, and I agree to it."
And there is something else: Beyond our parents and ancestors, we are connected to something greater that is taking us and them into its service. This greater something allocates each one of us a special destiny, a task, and therefore also the strength to face it. Agreeing to this also, we are freed, without distraction from superficial wishes. We are filled by something greater."
- Bert Hellinger, Rising in Love: A Philosophy of Being
Art: Mother’s Lullaby
ANNIE HENRIE