{"author":"Lucy H. Pearce","author_id":"Lucy+H.+Pearce","total_quotes":25,"quotes":[{"text":"The Dalai Lama says that the world will be saved by Western women. Not any women, perhaps not all women, but Burning Women. Women who have stepped out of silence and into the fullness of their power. Angry women who love the world and her creatures too much to let it be destroyed so thoughtlessly for a moment longer.Burning Woman is the heart and soul of revolution – inner and outer. She burns for change, she dances in the fire of the old, all the while visioning and weaving the new.","author":"Lucy H. Pearce","tags":["anger","angry-women","burning-woman","cultural-change","dalai-lama","feminine-archetypes","herstory","priestess","revolution","silence"],"id":21274,"author_id":"Lucy+H.+Pearce"},{"text":"The deep Feminine, the mystery of consciousness, She who is life, is longing for our transformation as much as we are. She holds back, allowing us free reign to choose, nudging us occasionally with synchronicities, illness, births and deaths… But when we make space for Her, she rushes into all the gaps, engulfing us with her desire for life and expression. This is what She longs for, this is what we are for: experiencing the Feminine through ourselves. We simply need to slow down, and find where to put our conscious attention. And it is this, this willingness to look again, this willingness to put consciousness onto our places of unconscious, to express what we have always avoided, which starts the process of unblocking, so that She may flow through.","author":"Lucy H. Pearce","tags":["consciousness","divine-feminine","feminine","goddess","goddess","sacred-feminine","wise-woman","women-s-wisdom"],"id":31151,"author_id":"Lucy+H.+Pearce"},{"text":"In my work with hundreds of women over the past few years a theme has emerged: women’s desperate, unquenchable desire to step into their power, countered by the fear of what will happen if they do. The longing to express the riches inside them, wrestling with the deep terror of being burned by the judgement, hatred or rejection of strangers or loved ones if they do. This fear of being burned is an oddly female one. It is a fear which keeps us small and scared… but seemingly safe. From the outside this can seem like an overreaction. Both the need, and the fear. But women, it seems, have an innate knowing of what it means to burn… and be burned. They know the dangers in their bones. And it makes them wary.","author":"Lucy H. Pearce","tags":["burning","burning-woman","courage","fear","vulnerability","women"],"id":47532,"author_id":"Lucy+H.+Pearce"},{"text":"We dare not talk of the darkness for fear it will infect us.We dare not talk of the fire, for fear it will destroy us.And so we live in the half-light, Like our mothers before us.Come to the fire, Feel it warm your skin.Come to the fire,Feel it burn in your belly,Shine out through your eyes.Come dance in the fire, Let it fuel your prayers.","author":"Lucy H. Pearce","tags":["bonfire","burning-woman","courage-to-be-oneself","darkness","fear","feminine-power","feminism","fire","goddess","prayers"],"id":51352,"author_id":"Lucy+H.+Pearce"},{"text":"Creativity takes courage. Not just once, but consistently. Without courage we cannot be creative. Without feeling fear at some point we will not reach our creative potential. From first putting paint on paper through to selling our work on a worldwide stage there is plenty to be scared of. But this is where creativity lives – on the edge of our comfort zones.","author":"Lucy H. Pearce","tags":["artist","artists","comfort-zone","courage","creative-process","creativity","creativity","fear"],"id":54314,"author_id":"Lucy+H.+Pearce"},{"text":"Through knowledge we gain power over our lives. With options we have possibility. With acceptance we find a new freedom.","author":"Lucy H. Pearce","tags":["acceptance","cycles","empowerment","freedom","moon-time","periods","possibility","power","sacred-feminine","women-s-power"],"id":54918,"author_id":"Lucy+H.+Pearce"},{"text":"Together we are learning to move from raw emotion and frozen muscles into a flow which emerges deep from within. We are learning to dance our prayers, bleed our words onto the page, laugh our images onto canvas, build our dreams in the world – to transmute and transmit the energy of the Feminine through our bodies and out into the world.","author":"Lucy H. Pearce","tags":["alchemy","burning-woman","creativity","dance","energy-healing","feminine","feminine-power","goddess","healing","transformation","wise-woman"],"id":83742,"author_id":"Lucy+H.+Pearce"},{"text":"We often fear that the Revolution needed is too big for what we can give.Too much change is required inside, outside.And we are too small.But all that is required is that you step into the truth of your life. And speak it, write it, paint it, dance it.That you shine your light on your truth, for the world to see.And as hundreds, then thousands, then millions do this – each sparking the courage of yet more – Suddenly we have a world alight with truth.","author":"Lucy H. Pearce","tags":["activism","activist","burning-woman","create-change","cultural-change","feminism","history","revolution"],"id":149452,"author_id":"Lucy+H.+Pearce"},{"text":"We are weaving her-story into reality.Unweaving the limiting his-stories.Creating our-story.Reaching beyond religion and patriarchy and capitalism and so-called democracy.Into new ways of being and seeing.We are the bridge between worldsWe are the ones we have been waiting for.","author":"Lucy H. Pearce","tags":["cultural-change","feminism","herstory","history"],"id":164488,"author_id":"Lucy+H.+Pearce"},{"text":"When we have the courage to claim space for ourselves. When we risk creativity. When we relish our sensuality. When we honor our lives and their experiences as valuable. When we create from a female body, expressing ourselves in a woman’s voice, using a woman’s language. We begin to bloom.","author":"Lucy H. Pearce","tags":["courage","creative-mothers","creative-process","creativity","creativity","motherhood","risk","womens-creativity"],"id":182724,"author_id":"Lucy+H.+Pearce"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}