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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.
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Credos 1

Modern Thinkers about the human condition

Further Reflections on Reflection

By Atticus Atlas | Reflection
We can think about why we think what we think and think how best we can think. The best means to the best ends begins in the best thoughts. Watch the observer – you – and give ‘him’ the best advice you can. The process points up the purpose. It is as true for reflection itself as for anything else.

Practical Wisdom

By Atticus Atlas | Philosophy, Reflection
ACTION STARTS WITH THOUGHT. Do you start to ‘act’ – in this sense – in the right mental space? Do you learn ‘on the job’ of life? Are there viable short cuts? Is yours an approach to take into account as many as possible useful factors? School yourself to reach your best way of taking decisions.
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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?

Tao

By Joy Philippou MBE
With desperate lucidityWe seize upon escape,Contemptuous of danger.Diving throughego-encrusted layersinto limpid ...
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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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