The first sense he had of God was when he was eleven years oldat Chigwell being retired intoa chamberalone: he was so suddenly surprised with a sense of inward comfort and (as he thought) an external glory in the room that he had many times said that from thence he has the Seal of Divinityand Immortality, that there was a God and thatthesoul of manwas capable ofenjoying his divine communications.

-Aubrey,John
  Of  William Penn, early Quaker. Brief Lives (published 1813).

One need not be a Chamberöto be Hauntedö One need not be a Houseö The brain has Corridorsösurpassing Material Placeö

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
c.1863  Complete Poems, no.670 (first published1891).

I throw myself down in my Chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

-Donne,John
  Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir  William Cockayne, 12 Dec.

Experience isnever limited, and it isnever complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching everyair-borne particle in its tissue.

-James, Henry
  'The  Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1888).

All the resources of a superpower cannot isolate a man whohearsthevoiceoffreedom; avoicethat Iheard from the very chamber of my soul.

-Sharansky, Natan Anatoly Borisovich
  Speech, NewYork,11 May, shortly after his release following nine years in a Soviet labour colony.

While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing Hopes of high talks with the departed dead.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'.

   They flee from me, that sometime did me seek, With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild, and do not remember That sometime they put themselves in danger To take bread at my hand; and now they range, Busily seeking with a continual change.

-Wyatt, SirThomas (the Elder)
  'They Flee from Me'.