Such a spiritual practice is thought to connect one with fullness, and when one is full, that fullness overflows into the outward action of seva.

While such Christian perfection is expressed in outward action, it is also the effect of grace.

For much of its length, nothing very momentous happens in "Maurice" in the way of outward action.

Unlike the other commandments which focus on outward actions, this commandment focuses on thought.

The New Testament describes Jesus as interpreting the Ten Commandments as issues of the heart's desires rather than merely prohibiting certain outward actions.

John Calvin views the tenth commandment as a demand for purity of the heart, above and beyond the outward actions.

The soul can't be hindered by outward action.

It has no outward action.

So," he commented when I had finished, "you have concerned yourselves with peering behind outward action to find causes.

God must be worshipped spiritually by prayer and the will to be good, not in outward action.