" According to Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.

According to political scientist Arthur Stinchcombe, citizenship is based on the extent that a person can control one's own destiny within the group in the sense of being able to influence the government of the group.

According to Heraclitus, worldly pleasures made the soul " moist ", and he considered mastering one's worldly desires to be a noble pursuit which purified the soul's fire.

According to some of the adepts of the Jewish Merkabah mystical tradition, if one wished to " descend to the Merkabah " one had to adopt the prayer posture taken by the Prophet Elijah in I Kings 18: 42, namely to pray with one's head between one's knees.

According to his Confessions, after nine or ten years of adhering to the Manichaean faith as a member of the group of " hearers ", Augustine became a Christian and a potent adversary of Manichaeism ( which he expressed in writing against his Manichaean opponent Faustus of Mileve ), seeing their beliefs that knowledge was the key to salvation as too passive and not able to effect any change in one's life.

Some, including Sheldon Glashow, speculate that Witten chose the letter because it resembles an inverted W. According to Witten, " M can stand variously for ' magic ', ' mystery ', or ' matrix ', according to one's taste.

According to Peikoff, one can be certain of a proposition if all of the available evidence supports it, i. e., it can be logically integrated with the rest of one's knowledge ; one is then certain within the context of the evidence.

" According to Rand, therefore, possessing free will, human beings must choose their values: one does not automatically hold one's own life as his ultimate value.

According to Adam Smith, the expectation of profit from " improving one's stock of capital " rests on private property rights.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the definition of the word privy in Privy Council is an obsolete one meaning " of or pertaining exclusively to a particular person or persons, one's own ;" hence the council is personal to the sovereign.

According to The Chess Variant Pages &# x200A ;: Perhaps the enduring popularity of Shogi can be attributed to its ' drop rule '; it was the first chess variant wherein captured pieces could be returned to the board to be used as one's own.

According to special relativity, one can change a spatial and time separation ( L < sub > 1 </ sub >, Δt < sub > 1 </ sub >) into another ( L < sub > 2 </ sub >, Δt < sub > 2 </ sub >) by changing one's reference frame, as long as the change maintains the spacetime interval s. Such a change in reference frame corresponds to changing one's motion ; in a moving frame, lengths and times are different from their counterparts in a stationary reference frame.

According to Wesleyan understanding, good works were the fruit of one's salvation, not the way in which that salvation was earned.

According to Fromm, the awareness of a disunited human existence is a source of guilt and shame, and the solution to this existential dichotomy is found in the development of one's uniquely human powers of love and reason.

According to author John Leland, the object of the game is to stupefy and daze one's opponents with swift and skillful speech.

According to the theory, accommodation is the process of reframing one's mental representation of the external world to fit new experiences.

According to Ayurvedic medicine, sago porridge can be an effective and simple food to " cool and balance one's body heat " when taking strong medicine or antibiotics.

According to Gerry Max, Horizon Chasers -- The Lives and Adventures of Richard Halliburton and Paul Mooney, Halliburton's message to seek one's destiny abroad, and to embrace romantic enterprises, drew its chief inspiration, as did the new cult of youth emerging after World War I, from poet Rupert Brooke.

According to Jains, one's highest goal should be moksha ( i. e., liberation from samsara, the cycle of birth and rebirth ).

According to these doctrines bodhi is always there within one's mind, but requires the defilements to be removed.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, " self-love " is " the instinct or desire to promote one's well-being "; while La Rochefoucauld considered ' that amour-propre ( self-regard ) is the mainspring of all human activities '.

According to Confucian moral standards, loyalty to one's family, friends, and superiors are important measures for distinguishing good and bad people.

According to Christians, acts of repentance do not earn God's forgiveness from one's sin ; rather, forgiveness is given as a gift from God to those whom he saves.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, " the widely observed unity of form and point of view ... and general resemblance in linguistic detail throughout the sequence are broadly suggestive of the work of a single author ," though other scholars see Lamentations as the work of multiple authors.

According to Dan Krutz, former president of CUIC, " Overcoming racism has been a focal point of CUIC since its beginning ... Racism may be the biggest sin that divides churches.

According to Françoise Hélène Pairault's study, historical and archaeological evidence point to the fact that both Diana of the Aventine and Diana Nemorensis were the product of the direct or indirect influence of the cult of Artemis spread by the Phoceans among the Greek towns of Campania Cuma and Capua, which in turn passed it over to the Etruscans and the Latins by the VI and V centuries BC.

According to the American Kennel Club ’ s breed standards, " the dachshund is clever, lively and courageous to the point of rashness, persevering in above and below ground work, with all the senses well-developed.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

According to the Talmud, however, the point of Qoheleth is to state that all is futile under the Sun.

) According to the Muratorian fragment, Marcion's canon contained an epistle entitled Epistle to the Laodiceans which is commonly thought to be a forgery written to conform to his own point of view.

According to Rao, " St. Francis Xavier made it a point not only to convert the people but also destroy the idols and ancient places of worship.

According to the Buddhist point of view, once we have developed a genuine understanding of the causes of suffering, such as craving ( tanha ) and ignorance ( avijja ), then we can completely eradicate these causes and thus be free from suffering.

According to the canonical Gospels, Jesus was the " son " ( descendant ) of David ; thus, Hajj Sayed argues that this statement confirms the Gospel of Barnabas ' point.

According to Ducellier the Petrelë Castle | castle of Petrela was the access point to the region known with this name On the location of Arbanon see also

According to a 2005 poll, most of Finns at that point were reluctant to join NATO.

According to Lemley, it was only at this point that the term really began to be used in the United States ( which had not been a party to the Berne Convention ), and it did not enter popular usage until passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980.

According to Irenaeus, the high point in salvation history is the advent of Jesus.

According to the definition established in a 1932 convention signed by Denmark, Norway and Sweden ( registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series 199-1933 ), the northern boundary between Kattegat and Skagerrak is found at the northernmost point of Skagen on Jutland and the southern boundary towards Oresund is found at the tip of Kullen Peninsula in Scania.

According to Padmanabh Jaini, his emphasis on reaping the fruits only of one ’ s own karma was not restricted to the Jainas ; both Hindus and Buddhist writers have produced doctrinal materials stressing the same point.

According to Steve Erlewine, its memorable guitar riffs, lumbering rhythms, psychedelic blues, groovy, bluesy shuffles and hints of English folk, made it " a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal ".

According to the authors, their discoveries point to a tradition of proto-dentistry in the early farming cultures of that region.

According to the Bible, Nazareth was also where Jesus grew up from some point in his childhood.

According to Rand, " man's mind will not function at the point of a gun.

According to Greek sources, principally Theophanes, it was at this point that Gregory excommunicated Leo.

According to a legend, at some point while he was on the run during the winter of 1306 – 07, Bruce hid in a cave on Rathlin Island off the north coast of Ireland, where he observed a spider spinning a web, trying to make a connection from one area of the cave's roof to another.

According to Australian maps, South Australia's south coast is flanked by the Southern Ocean, but official international consensus defines the Southern Ocean as extending north from the pole only to 60 ° S or 55 ° S, at least 17 degrees of latitude further south than the most southern point of South Australia.

According to the New York Times of June 16, 2009, Sosa had also tested positive for steroids at some point during the season.