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  • But the perception of this relation with the Divine = = or, rather, of this "withinness" of the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Indeed, the evolution of consciousness, the renewed and different awareness of withinness can be seen in poems such as “On the Way” and “Romantic Day” which show how we live in a world of our own perceptions (and this is what the haunting in all his other poems implies).

    The Poet Thomas Hardy « Unknowing 2010

  • Socorro finds herself, as Bill Cain says, “living within the withinness of God.”

    Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyle 2010

  • Science can account for a lot of things, but one thing it cannot account for is the shocking presence of an inside, of a cosmic withinness, of an interior presence in the midst of what had only been an “exterior” up to the emergence of life.

    The experience of subjects Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • The ego [here] is wholly identified with the higher centres whose quality of feeling is that of withinness.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • The ego [here] is wholly identified with the higher centres whose quality of feeling is that of withinness.

    Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature William James 1876

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