This sub-domain covers the inner life of the person: the soul as integrating centre, the capacity to image God, and the sacred significance of ordinary circumstance as the site of formation. These concepts describe what is happening inside a person as they are formed toward God, and why the everyday is not a distraction from that process but its primary location. ## Concepts - [[Soul]]: the inner life of a person in its totality; the centre of relationship with God from which response and recognition proceed - [[Sacred Ordinary]]: the ordinary as the primary location of divine life; the soul as receptacle gradually occupied room by room by God - [[Imago Dei]]: the image of God as the capacity to govern; the personal kingdom as its expression; thought control as its deepest violation - [[Significance]]: the human hunger to count and matter; the legitimate, creaturely precursor to egotism, not egotism itself - [[Teresa of Avila]]: the classic interior guide; her Interior Castle maps the soul's gradual formation toward union with God across seven concentric rooms