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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.

Roy

Roy says: “If all I do in my life is achieve a state of absolute peace of mind, that is enough everything else – all the understandings – come out of that.”

Helen

Helen takes a cosmic view: “When the spirit enters the body, the soul is formed; when it connects with physical matter it forms the soul. I believe this is a journey that I have had; we are growing and we are learning.”

Peter

‘Peter’ makes observations on the art and origin of observing, and about virology, belief systems, and how conflict arises.
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Credos 1

Modern Thinkers about the human condition

Learning Cycle by David Kolb

By Atticus Atlas | Reflection
David Kolb proposed that if people become better at using all stages of a learning cycle, notably including reflecting on experience, they will become better life-long learners, and be more successful. His concept is among many that advocates 'trial and error' (extending to reflection, conceptualization and experimentation) through direct personal experience
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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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