Quotes from ALLA BOZARTH-CAMPBELL

Funerals are the rituals we create to help us face the reality of death, to give us a way of expressing our response to that reality with other persons, and to protect us from the full impact of the meaning of death for ourselves. Some funerals fulfill these functions beautifully. Others fail.

My nose is a bridge between East and West. My little eye is a wink from God.

The soul has to learn how to respond when bad weather comes, as well as sudden bliss.

Prose is sending poets to prison. Poetry is the poet in prison secretly composing poems by heart, going right on with the truth.

The sensual and spiritual are the same energy playing at different speeds, like poetry and dance.

We need to begin by recognizing the validity and value of our own experience for the corporate good. Contrary to the distorted view of theology often communicated by our teachers in the past, our own experience is relevant to the theology of the whole community. If our theological understanding has no connection with lived experience, it has no validation of its own and becomes part of the dead weight that burdens us instead of the meaningful context that illuminates our lives.

Dreams have always impressed me as spontaneous works of art, produced by the unconscious parts of the psyche with breathtaking clarity. Our dreams are a valid expression of spirituality, for they tell of the life of the soul, as do our waking fantasies, images, and collective myths.