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Room Three
Credos
What do people actually believe? This room gathers the personal credos, spiritual perspectives, and considered beliefs of thinkers ancient and modern — ideas worth sitting with, whether you share them or not.
“Two men looked out of prison bars — one saw mud, the other stars.”
Frederick Langbridge
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle
Personal Credos
What’s Important to you?
An Institute of Reflection rapporteur ambushed interviewees with these questions. The impromptu interviews – each so different – about PERSONAL CREDOS illustrate a world of philosophy that fascinates people.
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Credos 1
Modern Thinkers about the human condition
Credos 11
Mysticism & The Unseen World
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Credos 111
What is Important to You?
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Credos 1V
Spiritual Matters
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Credos V
Poet’s Corner
Poetry thrives in a shadowy, allusive world in which feelings that can be un-pinnable in precise language come into a reality all their own. It may seem to have little to do with the world of facts and experimentation that is science. If all that there is can be explained by what we see and/or what we can prove, what need is there for poetry?
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Your Turn
What is important to you?
This room is not just a reading room — it is an invitation. The Institute welcomes contributions from those who have thought carefully about what they believe and why. If you have something to say, we would like to read it.