Welcome to the Wisdom of the World and Its Meaning for You, by Joan Chittister
Joseph Campbell, the great scholar of mythology, once said that we should read other people’s stories because when we read our own, we assume they are factual, but when we read the myths of others, we begin to understand symbolism, and our imaginations transport us into realms of deeper meaning. I have found no better book for shifting one’s view from facts to symbols than Joan Chittister’s Welcome to the Wisdom of the World and Its Meaning for You.