Only recently have researchers realized that a willingness, even eagerness, to punish transgressors of the social compact is at least as important to the maintenance of social harmony as are regular displays of common human decency.
However, the self-regulation effects of acupuncture from these acupoints on the healthy body, which is an ongoing maintenance of balance and harmony in the circulation of Qi, are not known.
In Egypt, sacrifice is not so much a gift of humans to the gods as a sacral technique that enables humankind to contribute to the maintenance and, if necessary, the restoration of harmony and order in the world.
He never missed an opportunity to propagate the idea of civilitas ("civilized life" or "civilization"), a concept that includes the maintenance of peace and order, racial harmony, and the outlawing of oppression and violence.
But health within the family also means harmony and the maintenance of tradition, important in a society still influenced by Confucian values 1: I care firstly about my family, secondly about keeping family tradition.
The same is true of "Harmony".
They are hardly islands of harmony.
"He uses harmonies that are his language of harmony; he hears the melody within those harmonies.
"They are symbols of harmony," he said.
