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.
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At the heart of it
“It is the mark of a civilised person in a situation that is not too fraught that he or she will make time and space to reflect. The more one does it, the better one gets and if it is a habit one’s whole way of life can be transformed.”
Justin Glass, Founder
Little of what follows is as easy as it might seem.
Reflection is a mental or cerebral state of mind. Mental ...
Both as individuals and as societies, we are what we have thought. We should think again. What works or does not work for societies of today and for you and me?
ATTITUDES OF MIND and FEELING
THAT CAN BE ENHANCED BY OCCIDENTAL MEDITATION
TRAITS, ACTUATING PRINCIPLES, ...
Jenny Moon, a Teaching Fellow and Associate Professor at Bournemouth University, has written much on reflective ...
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.
Why should ‘one size fit all’? What are you thinking when you reflect? Can your own thoughts be prescribed for you by anyone else? Are they the same as thoughts that anyone else may have in a similar context or are they more personal to you? This is a subjective voyage. One individual’s ideas during one sitting are here. Do you think in the same way?
I shall be ambitious to have it said of me that I brought philosophy out of the closets and libraries, schools ...
The theory behind the Institute of Reflection is expounded in this essay.
This virtual institute is about how the facility and ability, reflection, that each of us has to greater or lesser ...
"What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and ...
How Reflection can help widen your horizonYou are an observer, whatever else you are. If you encourage the ...
For millennia humans have solved extraordinary problems as well as taken advantage of great opportunities through ...
By J. Glass
Preamble
Leaving aside such hoary pensées as that of Descartes’, ‘I think therefore I am’, how much ...
Reflection is meditation shorn of the baggage. This article gives a brief overview of what it is, how to do it, and how it can help.
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