As a spiritual basis for the refounded movement, Steiner wrote a Foundation Stone Meditation which remains a central meditative expression of anthroposophical ideas.

A central principle is that " for every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

The tradition has a focus on community, placing great emphasis on ethical conduct and reverence towards all sentient beings as central to spiritual maturity.

In contrast to the " effeminate " view of the central character that usually accompanied a female casting, she described her character as " manly and resolute, but nonetheless thoughtful ... thinks before he acts, a trait indicative of great strength and great spiritual power ".

James Mellaart, who excavated the site, believed that Çatalhöyük was the spiritual center of central Anatolia.

The four-iwan format, finalized by the Seljuqs, and later inherited by the Safavids, firmly established the courtyard facade of such mosques, with the towering gateways at every side, as more important than the actual buildings themselves, and they typically took the form of a square-shaped, central courtyard with large entrances at each side, giving the impression of being gateways to the spiritual world.

The Trust, however, does not act as a central spiritual authority.

Its central precepts have been described as " drawing on both Eastern and Western spiritual and metaphysical traditions and infusing them with influences from self-help and motivational psychology, holistic health, parapsychology, consciousness research and quantum physics ".

Whatever religious, mystical or spiritual elements were central to Stonehenge, its design includes a celestial observatory function, which might have allowed prediction of eclipse, solstice, equinox and other celestial events important to a contemporary religion.

Spirituality has played a central role in self-help movements such as Alcoholics Anonymous: "... if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead ...."

The central practice of Subud is the latihan kejiwaan ( literally " spiritual exercise " or " training of the spirit ") or simply ' the latihan '.

Ellen White came to occupy a particularly central role ; her many visions and spiritual leadership convinced her fellow Adventists that she possessed the gift of prophecy.

He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervor of spirit, and spiritual desire inner necessity ; it was a central aspect of his art.

** an adherent of Gaianism — an Earth-centered ( sometimes referred to as neo-Pagan ) spiritual inclination with diverse and evolving religious expression whose central reference is Gaia as personification of the Earth as Mother to all life upon the planet.

As they believed they were descendants of the stars, cosmology had a central role in daily and spiritual life.

His worldly knowledge, although useful, gets him in trouble with the more doctrinaire characters of the series, and the seeming contradiction between the secular and the spiritual worlds forms a central and continuing theme of the stories.

The eagle is a sacred bird in some cultures and the feathers of the eagle are central to many religious and spiritual customs, especially among some Native Americans in the United States and First Nations in Canada, as well as among many of the peoples of Meso-America.

In this context, the personal pilgrimage of a Hasid to his Rebbe is a central feature of spiritual life, in order to awaken spiritual fervour.

For some Protestants spiritual unity, and often unity on the church's teachings on central issues, suffices.

( These phenomena are of course central to many spiritual and religious disciplines, and are regularly employed by evangelists, cult leaders and holy men of all kinds ).

Faeries represent the first spiritual movement to be both " gay centered and gay engendered ", where gayness is central to the idea, rather than in addition to, or incidental to a pre-existing spiritual tradition.

Convinced of the necessity of a central authority for Judaism, Akiva became a devoted adherent and friend of Gamaliel, who aimed at constituting the patriarch the true spiritual chief of the Jews ( R. H. ii.

The central tenet of Spiritist doctrine is the belief in spiritual life.

Henry II developed the practice of sending judges from his own central court to hear the various disputes throughout the country.

While capital adequacy is important, it is defined and regulated by the Bank for International Settlements, and central banks in practice generally do not apply stricter rules.

With no central authority individual congregations are responsible for maintaining orthodoxy in belief and practice, and the statement of faith is seen by many as useful to this end.

This practice carried on for many years after central stations became common and is still in use in many industries.

The following is a basic, structured list of the central works of Jewish practice and thought.

In the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) since 1967, the terms Ultra-Left and left communist refers to political theory and practice self-defined as further " left " than that of the central Maoist leaders at the height of the GPCR (" Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ").

Musicology also has two central, practically oriented subdisciplines with no parent discipline: performance practice and research, and the theory, analysis and composition of music.

The business demise of Netscape was a central premise of Microsoft's antitrust trial, wherein the Court ruled that Microsoft Corporation's bundling of Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system was a monopolistic and illegal business practice.

One of its central concepts is " halakha ", sometimes translated as " law "", which guides religious practice and belief and many aspects of daily life.

As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the Western tradition.

In practice, the USSR was a highly centralised entity from its creation in 1922 until the mid-1980s when political forces unleashed by reforms undertaken by Mikhail Gorbachev resulted in the loosening of central control and its ultimate dissolution.

The term is deemed central to Setian philosophy and practice, having been introduced at the founding of the Temple of Set in 1975, when Aquino made the claim that the Egyptian god Set communicated the word Xeper in the sense of " become " to him during the " North Solstice X Working " aka " The Santa Barbara Working.

In Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah,, the Supreme Court ruled Hialeah had passed an ordinance banning ritual slaughter, a practice central to the Santería religion, while providing exceptions for some practices such as the kosher slaughter.

Immersion ( or aspersion or affusion ) of a person in water is a central sacrament of Christianity ( where it is called baptism ); it is also a part of the practice of other religions, including Islam ( Ghusl ), Judaism ( mikvah ) and Sikhism ( Amrit Sanskar ).

Furthermore, while Provence was technically a part of the Kingdom of Burgundy and hence of the Holy Roman Empire, in practice it was free of central authority.

The central idea of Khlystys ' ideology was to practice asceticism.

Although the central and local governments kept an enormous number of records about land property in order to assess taxes, it became common practice in the Tang for literate and affluent people to create their own private documents and signed contracts.

Although sequences that are closer to truly random can be generated using hardware random number generators, pseudorandom numbers are important in practice for their speed in number generation and their reproducibility, and they are thus central in applications such as simulations ( e. g., of physical systems with the Monte Carlo method ), in cryptography, and in procedural generation.

It is an open question, and one central to the theory and practice of cryptography, whether there is any way to distinguish the output of a high-quality PRNG from a truly random sequence without knowing the algorithm ( s ) used and the state with which it was initialized.

The best medical practice today accepts a link between the body and psychiatric injury, so the words " bodily harm " in sections 20 and 47 were capable of covering recognised psychiatric illnesses, such as an anxiety or a depressive disorder, which affect the central nervous system of the body.

A similar practice, only with a much slower pace for falling, has been practised as the Danza de los Voladores de Papantla or the ' Papantla flyers ' of central Mexico, a tradition dating back to the days of the Aztecs.

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz writes that " If the Bible is the cornerstone of Judaism, then the Talmud is the central pillar ... No other work has had a comparable influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life, shaping influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life " and states:

Falun Gong emphasises morality and the cultivation of virtue in its central tenets of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance (), and identifies as a qigong practice of the Buddhist school, though its teachings also incorporate elements drawn from Taoist traditions.