Stephanie Pehar

“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.”
― Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman

“But the best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude

“you can not
remain
a
war
between
what you want to say (who you really are)
and
what you should say (who you pretend to be)
you mouth was not designed to eat itself.

–– split”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“It is true that the real world of the soul is an invisible place, removed from the rush and chatter of crowds, and that the most important portion of life is the secret and solitary portion. Yet the most influential element even of this secluded world and this hidden life, is the element which consists of the ideas and feelings we habitually cherish in relation to our fellow-beings.”
― William Rounseville Alger, The Solitudes of Nature and of Man; or, The Loneliness of Human Life