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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.

Theodore

Theodore sees his life like onion rings: “The outside onion ring is my social life and my sporting life…. the inner ring is your own personal philosophy, your perception of the universe and the world and your place in it.”

Stuart

Stewart feels that “The secret to fulfilment in your life is to send out pure love.” Anthony also says: “A purpose in life is to share love and to be loved.”

Crystal

Crystal takes 35 seconds to say she does not think about such questions and therefore has nothing to say about the answers
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Credos 1

Modern Thinkers about the human condition

Reflective Practice

By Atticus Atlas | Reflection
Linda Lawrence-Wilkes and Dr Lyn Ashmore, teachers of professional development in higher education, collaborated to publish their research on Reflective Practice for learning, 'The Reflective Practitioner in Professional Education'.

Graham Gibbs‘ Reflective Cycle

By Atticus Atlas | Reflection
The theoretical approach of reflection as a cyclical model was further developed by Graham Gibbs (1998). This model is based on a six-stage approach, leading from a description of the experience through to conclusions and considerations for future events. While most of the core principles are similar to Kolb’s, Gibbs’ model is broken down further to encourage the teacher to reflect on their own thoughts and feelings.
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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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Poet's Corner

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.

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