Something about meditation

I discovered Joseph Campbell when I was quite young and I count myself very fortunate indeed to have done so. Here's something he said about the importance of meditation that I like very much:

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspaper that morning, you don't know who your friends are, you don't know what you owe anybody, you don't know what anybody owes you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.