We knew his films had an inner meaning that was for us to puzzle out.
Since the symptoms represent a compromise within the mind between letting the repressed mental contents out and continuing to deny all conscious knowledge of them, the particular character and aspects of an individual's symptoms and neurotic concerns bear an inner meaning that symbolically represents the underlying intrapsychic conflict.
Soon after the Incoherence, he wrote a similar book about the movement of the Ismâ'îlite Shiites, known as the "Bâtinites" ("those who arbitrarily follow an inner meaning in the Qur'an").
The term quality of life (QOL) is difficult to define, but with a deep inner meaning of overall satisfaction with life, in the physical, psychological, social and spiritual dimensions [ 7].
A world of inner meaning and assumptions about the subjects opens up for the viewer.
Such accusations, the Sufis maintained, were made because the orthodox relied too much on the external meaning of religious texts and did not have the ambition or energy to seek an understanding of the inner meaning of Islam.
Once, the self or soul was whole, unitary, stable and separate from its surroundings; a self-identical, particular thing persisting through time with an indivisible interior and inner meaning.
Because of the potency of its language and imagery, as well as the fact that it is, in essence, a commentary on the inner meaning of the Torah, Kabbalah study has historically been open only to married, observant Jewish men old enough to be grounded in Judaism's core texts.
Getting to a topic's true inner meaning (if possible at all) takes time, patience, breadth and depth of knowledge and an abiding willingness to question the "obvious".
Elsewhere, he writes that Frank Sinatra "added new levels of irony, sometimes outright cynicism, to the emotional immediacy of the torch singers, and the end result was something new: a performance that delivered the inner meaning of the lyric while also offering an arch commentary on it".
The entry in my journal reads, "23 December 1970, A Christmas Story". I've always been a seeker, searching for the inner meaning of things; and I've tried to intellectualize the essence of Christmas.
