Quotes about Interpretation

I don't ask other actors questions. I think that's too intrusive. I just watch. I don't want to be constricted to an idea of what acting is by anyone else. I want to take my own education.

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

most people do not see things as they are, they see things as they are!

We see what we are ready to see, expect to see, and even desire to see.

It's not the idea that we hear, as much as the positive or negative energy behind it.

I hope we can inaugurate a new humility in our use of religious language, which for me is the very proof that it is authentic.

Remember this: pure literalism always leads to a decrease in meaning. Mythology and sacred texts try to lead us and allow us to have the experience for ourselves. Through our experience we discover that encounter is not only possible but desirable. So often we struggle with experiencing our experiences.

To take the Scriptures seriously is not to take them literally. Literalism is invariably the lowest and least level of meaning. Most