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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.

Emmy

Emmy says: “I believe in God. There is a creator who created us. To know him, to love him and to serve him, that’s (what is important). We need to act and help each other. We are the temple of the Holy Spirit.” Lord Mereworth, from a different religion, says much the same.

Tsuruko and Barry

Tsuruko here is giving Barry ‘the Light’, in the process of which she explains what she is doing.

Adrian

Adrian says: “God is nature. It’s open for nature. Religion, if you go back far enough, came from the Sun God. I really believe that the Sun gave life.”
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More Personal Credos

Credos 1

Modern Thinkers about the human condition

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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?

Ithaka

By C. P. Cavafy
Translated by EDMUND KEELEY   As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, ...
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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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