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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.

Yvette

TO Yvette, Reflection is important in reaching the right decisions. Relationships are what matter. There is a difference between friendship, which makes a real difference to a relationship, and Love which is so important, and in so many contexts.

Nelson

Nelson believes that what is important to us changes at different phases of our life

Lord Mereworth

Lord Mereworth is a profoundly religious person who cares about Justice, the cornerstone of human relations.
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Credos 1

Modern Thinkers about the human condition

International Relations and Reflection

By Atticus Atlas | Reflecting About Society
Lord Stirrup, Marshal of the Royal Air Force and Chief of the Defence Staff from 2006 until 2010, gave an excellent speech lasting 57 minutes to the think tank formerly run by the founder of this institute. The reality of the serious issues with which the speaker grapples serve to highlight the secondary nature of reflection when facing the ‘heat of the kitchen’. Lateral thinking, an offshoot of intellectual reflection, could be said to inform Mr Glass’s vote of thanks as he alludes to a key issue that is ‘out of the box’ in the normal course of considering defence procurement.
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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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