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“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
Four Pieces to Begin With
Recommended from this room
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Please accept condolences from someone who has undergone the loss of someone dear to them.
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Does one ruminate and allow space for intuition to pop up to the surface of our mind and/or is one disposed to cudgel the brains in a more intellectual way to make sense of ideas and facts that come to one? Inspiration can be a subject of thinking enquiry.
Credos 1
Modern Thinkers about the human condition
The first time we do it, we may not get very far. If we make a habit of doing it slowly, by degrees, then a feel ...
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Please accept condolences from someone who has undergone the loss of someone dear to them.
How do you feel and what should you be feeling? What justifiable comfort can you seek? Where can it be found? What ideas now are the best ones to lodge in your thoughts? Can you feel in any way better by approaching your bereavement in the best way tailored to your own unique situation?
Credos 11
Mysticism & The Unseen World
Little of what follows is as easy as it might seem.
Reflection is a mental or cerebral state of mind. Mental ...
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Eastern Meditation has it's handbooks, it's rituals, it's methods, its's mantras. So too there is advice galore ...
Marvellous discoveries have been made since Great Thinkers first contemplated the stars! You have the benefit of ...
Contentment is a tremendous boon. It is a springboard for those extra-special moments of bliss which we cannot ...
Reflection is a tool of the mind helping better decision-making. It can affect your everyday thinking and attitude ...
Treat yourself as a subject worthy of contemplation. If you think about who you are, you are on the way to ...
You can find quiet by yourself and the peace that accompanies it. It is a reason for the appeal of ‘Meditation’. ...
You are an observer, whatever else you are. If you encourage the tendency to observe there is no limit to what ...
Credos 111
What is Important to You?
The first time we do it, we may not get very far. If we make a habit of doing it slowly, by degrees, then a feel ...
It is said that divorce and moving home can be among the greatest traumas to be faced, assuming you are in a civilised and healthy general environment. So, what should you do; what should you think; how should you face up to your divorce, assuming that it is now inevitable?
Please accept condolences from someone who has undergone the loss of someone dear to them.
How do you feel and what should you be feeling? What justifiable comfort can you seek? Where can it be found? What ideas now are the best ones to lodge in your thoughts? Can you feel in any way better by approaching your bereavement in the best way tailored to your own unique situation?
Credos 1V
Spiritual Matters
The first time we do it, we may not get very far. If we make a habit of doing it slowly, by degrees, then a feel ...
It is said that divorce and moving home can be among the greatest traumas to be faced, assuming you are in a civilised and healthy general environment. So, what should you do; what should you think; how should you face up to your divorce, assuming that it is now inevitable?
Please accept condolences from someone who has undergone the loss of someone dear to them.
How do you feel and what should you be feeling? What justifiable comfort can you seek? Where can it be found? What ideas now are the best ones to lodge in your thoughts? Can you feel in any way better by approaching your bereavement in the best way tailored to your own unique situation?
Credos V
Poet’s Corner
Moments flow uplifting the Self ;
Time, unfelt, is cast aside
To its own devices :
An unknown ...
Ropes, an entangled Whole
Entity ; How did it come to be :
A mess made by a man ;
The output of his confused ...
Liquid Crystal : a Name
Given to an impossible Reality.
Liquid Smoke
...
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.