Quotes About Interiority

We are in an outside that carries inner worlds.

The inside of life became far smaller than the outside, creating a cavity, an emptiness.

If old covenant believers were regenerated by the Spirit, what is new about the new interiority promised in Jer 31:31–34? The newness does not consist in the Spirit's regenerating ministry of enabling people to hear God's word and believe. What is new is the indwelling ministry of the Spirit and the spiritualized view of the temple.

For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.

The body of the woman is the overwhelming triumph of flesh. The woman is a concrete universal; she is a world, not an externalized world, but under the world, the warm interiority of the world, a compressed internalized world.

Only by externalization, by entering into social relationships, can we develop the interiority of our own person.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.

Left-Hand or interior events cannot be seen in that fashion. You cannot see love, envy, wonder, compassion, insight, intentionality, spiritual illumination, states of consciousness, value, or meaning running around out there in the empirical world. Interior events are not seen in an exterior or objective manner, they are seen by introspection and interpretation

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

If a wise man abides in his room his thoughts are heard for more than a thousand miles." if one makes a mandorla in the privacy of his interior life, it is heard for more than a thousand miles — I Ching, hexagram #61

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

Paradoxically (since people say: Work, amuse yourself, see friends) it's when we're busy, distracted, sought out, exteriorized, that we suffer most. Inwardness, calm, solitude makes us less miserable.

Mandel, who died in 1995, had mastered the art of packaging his interiority, an innovation that would become the driving engine behind Web culture.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.

Silence is not emptiness but an alert unfocusing focus on subtle rhythms that join our interiority to the natural world.

I didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did.

The obscurity of the external world is a function of my own obscurity to myself; the world has no intrinsic obscurity. Should we say that it comes to the same thing in the end? We must ask up to what point this interior opacity is a result; is it not very largely the consequence of an act? and is not this act simply sin?

Memory as an inversion of historical time is the essence of interiority.

Feelings were best tucked out of sight where they couldn't get in anyone's way.

Film is not an amazing medium to relay interiority. I think literature is much better for that.

A capacity for interiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation to squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hollowness. The syndrome especially plagues anyone who lives behind a mask...A hundred ways to duck the question: how will I live with myself now that I know what I know?

Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the action never enters into the depth and intimacy of relationships.