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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.

Jan

Jan is an Oxbridge graduate with no time for nonsense

Omar

Omar is after: “Finding that balance, staying happy not working too hard, financial stability.”

Oswald

'Oswald' is a gentleman of the road. His is a view that neatly aligns with his hairdo
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Credos 1

Modern Thinkers about the human condition

Are You Undergoing a Divorce?

By Atticus Atlas | Reflection
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?

Have you Suffered a Bereavement?

By Atticus Atlas | Reflection
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?
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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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Spiritual Matters

Consciousness

By Atticus Atlas | Spirituality
One of the conundrums that nowadays particularly intrigues the reflecting world in that of consciousness. We all have it but what is it and what if anything is particular to the human race in possessing it? Is it likely that we alone have the key to understanding what is going on - - or perhaps the key is illusory?
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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?

Mercury

By Hemal Jayasuriya
An opaque silver grey A running ball, a liquid metal Not solid, Not organic So metallic, yet unlike A ...
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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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