Quotes about kinship (16 Quotes)


    This is such a very different type of DNA testing than people know about. It's very different from forensic DNA analysis, where you are trying to match a sample to a specific crime suspect. This is kinship, and you will never get an exact match between a mother and a son. You get what's known as a probability of a relationship.

    The weakness of humanity is our blindness, a cultural blind spot which some call ignorance, in which a selfish and immature ego claims the world as ours and prevents us from seeing ourselves as a part of the world. Kinship with all life is a biological (evolutionary) fact, but our cultural ways of doing, perceiving and relating, blind us to this reality.

    Merely being an onlooker will not entitle you to approach Him and be in His Holy Company. Cultivate His Friendship or Kinship by the attitude of Love and dedicated Service.

    I loved Caleb. He and I had a special kinship throughout the season. The most difficult thing for me today, is that I can't tell him again how much I love him.

    . . . not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.


    Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.


    ... every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.





    Serve others for they are reflections of the same Entity of which you are yourself another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except in reference to the Original. Feel always kinship with all creation.

    Once you live with the issue of women and the landscape for a while, you find that you cannot separate them form the notions of peace, spirituality, and community. As women we must learn to become leaders in society, not just for our own sake, but for the sake of all people. We must support and protect our kinship with the environment for the generations to come.

    But if you held command, you were sure to make mischief in the land and cut off the ties of kinship Those it is whom Allah has cursed so He has made them deaf and blinded their eyes.

    It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the way we look at the world. Both attitudes are within our power . . . a man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy, and no one can stop him.



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