Socrates thought he could accomplish this worthwhile goal. It is a cornerstone of our way of thinking. To reverse the message in dated phraseology of Dante’s The Divine Comedy: ‘Prepare to meet thy salvation all ye who enter here!’ The carving for The Thinker by Rodin is no longer associated with The Gates of Hell of Dante’s original concept and today is a symbol of philosophy and knowledge.
The Virtual Agora for Occidental Meditation
Guiding Principles
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 ...
Jenny Moon, a Teaching Fellow and Associate Professor at Bournemouth University, has written much on reflective ...
You are an observer, whatever else you are. If you encourage the tendency to observe there is no limit to what ...
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?
The theory behind the Institute of Reflection is expounded in this essay.
Reflection is a tool of the mind helping better decision-making. It can affect your everyday thinking and attitude ...
Contentment is a tremendous boon. It is a springboard for those extra-special moments of bliss which we cannot ...
You can find quiet by yourself and the peace that accompanies it. It is a reason for the appeal of ‘Meditation’. ...
Marvellous discoveries have been made since Great Thinkers first contemplated the stars! You have the benefit of ...
Treat yourself as a subject worthy of contemplation. If you think about who you are, you are on the way to ...
Eastern Meditation has it's handbooks, it's rituals, it's methods, its's mantras. So too there is advice galore ...
Don’t you want to be more rounded, successful and clever. Of course you do! Everything in this institute tends in ...
This virtual institute is about how the facility and ability, reflection, that each of us has to greater or lesser ...
Reflective Practice is an ancient concept. There are references to the power of reflective learning in the ...
For millennia humans have solved extraordinary problems as well as taken advantage of great opportunities through ...
The theory behind the Institute of Reflection is expounded in this essay.
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