Continuity

This page is part of “Which Human Needs Are Met by Religions and Spirituality”.

Spiritual traditions provide continuity across generations and connect a person to something older than themselves — a lineage of ancestors, a heritage stretching back centuries, a story that began long before the person was born and would continue long after they were gone. This meets a deep human need: to feel like a link in a chain rather than an isolated point in time, to inherit something and to have something worth passing on.