Miklos Cseszneky #Stoicism open.substack.com/pub/csesznek...

There is something sobering—and moving—about these men sitting with Marcus Aurelius. They are not debating abstractions, but practising mental posture. They are not free to come and go, but they are learning to come and go within themselves. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/bars-witho...

Fauja Singh lived with the kind of integrity that draws no attention to itself. No drama, no slogans, no need to invent meaning beyond the act of living faithfully. He ran not to inspire but to endure. And because he endured, he inspired. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/fauja-sing...

@csesznekymiklos.bsky.social Just followed you & went to read your work on substack. open.substack.com/pub/csesznek... I especially liked: "Language, after all, is never just a tool. It is a form of life. And when we stop hearing the different ways life can sound, we lose more than we realise."

Fauja Singh lived with the kind of integrity that draws no attention to itself. No drama, no slogans, no need to invent meaning beyond the act of living faithfully. He ran not to inspire but to endure. And because he endured, he inspired. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/fauja-sing...

There is something sobering—and moving—about these men sitting with Marcus Aurelius. They are not debating abstractions, but practising mental posture. They are not free to come and go, but they are learning to come and go within themselves. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/bars-witho...

What these men grasp, intuitively, is that Stoicism is not abstraction. It is a toolkit. It begins with the premise that life is not fair, not kind, and not in our control. And it proceeds from there, asking only: what, then, is up to you? csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/bars-witho...

What these men grasp, intuitively, is that Stoicism is not abstraction. It is a toolkit. It begins with the premise that life is not fair, not kind, and not in our control. And it proceeds from there, asking only: what, then, is up to you? csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/bars-witho...

Violence plummets in men's prison - after inmates were taught about ancient Greek philosophy of Stoicism www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Violence plummets in men's prison - after inmates were taught about ancient Greek philosophy of Stoicism www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Amen. This article is food and medicine. Thankful to return.

Important article

La fenêtre Poésie par Miklós Cseszneky csesznekymiklos.tumblr.com/post/7832690...

La fenêtre Poésie par Miklós Cseszneky csesznekymiklos.tumblr.com/post/7832690...

Modern life punishes focus with fear: the fear of missing out, of falling behind, of being uninformed. But wisdom does not accumulate through the constant scanning of new inputs. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/the-weight...

Modern life punishes focus with fear: the fear of missing out, of falling behind, of being uninformed. But wisdom does not accumulate through the constant scanning of new inputs. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/the-weight...

A culture that begins to classify some feelings as too important to be disturbed — and others as fair game — is not promoting tolerance. It is promoting tribalism by proxy. civictemper.substack.com/p/the-new-hi...

A culture that begins to classify some feelings as too important to be disturbed — and others as fair game — is not promoting tolerance. It is promoting tribalism by proxy. civictemper.substack.com/p/the-new-hi...

A man in a state of chronic distraction is not simply busy; he is prevented, over and over, from the work of perception. And this has consequences. Not just in productivity, as the modern vocabulary would have it, but in the texture of one’s life. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/against-no...

A man in a state of chronic distraction is not simply busy; he is prevented, over and over, from the work of perception. And this has consequences. Not just in productivity, as the modern vocabulary would have it, but in the texture of one’s life. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/against-no...

Sikhs, whose distinctive turbans and beards mark them visibly, have often found themselves doubly punished: targeted for looking different, and then for being mistaken for adherents of another faith. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

How Not to Be a Sage: The Meeting #Stoic #Stoicism #Humour hownottobeasage.substack.com/p/the-meeting

Sikhs, whose distinctive turbans and beards mark them visibly, have often found themselves doubly punished: targeted for looking different, and then for being mistaken for adherents of another faith. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

How Not to Be a Sage: The Meeting #Stoic #Stoicism #Humour hownottobeasage.substack.com/p/the-meeting

One can love dogs and still believe they belong under control in public spaces. One can recognise their companionship and still see that not all of them are benign, and not all of their owners responsible. civictemper.substack.com/p/a-society-...

How Not to Be a Sage is not a publication of Stoic wisdom. It is a small record of Stoic failure — written by someone who has read the Stoics with admiration, and discovered how difficult it is to live accordingly. hownottobeasage.substack.com/about

If government policies continue to mistake management for excellence, and uniformity for fairness, then freedom will wither. And with it, the possibility of schools being places not just of instruction, but of true formation — moral, intellectual, human. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

One can love dogs and still believe they belong under control in public spaces. One can recognise their companionship and still see that not all of them are benign, and not all of their owners responsible. civictemper.substack.com/p/a-society-...

If government policies continue to mistake management for excellence, and uniformity for fairness, then freedom will wither. And with it, the possibility of schools being places not just of instruction, but of true formation — moral, intellectual, human. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/the-quiet-...

How Not to Be a Sage is not a publication of Stoic wisdom. It is a small record of Stoic failure — written by someone who has read the Stoics with admiration, and discovered how difficult it is to live accordingly. hownottobeasage.substack.com/about

Exactly this Turn it off for a while! Be productive Find peace

The whole structure of our digital life is designed to make uninterrupted time feel strange, even irresponsible. The man who closes his laptop and lets himself be bored risks guilt. Shouldn’t he be reading something? Watching something? Answering someone? csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/against-no...

Guru Arjan was not a warrior. He was a poet, a builder, a spiritual architect. He compiled the Adi Granth, the foundational scripture of Sikhi, bringing together not only the words of the Gurus but those of Hindu and Muslim saints as well. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/guru-arjan...

The whole structure of our digital life is designed to make uninterrupted time feel strange, even irresponsible. The man who closes his laptop and lets himself be bored risks guilt. Shouldn’t he be reading something? Watching something? Answering someone? csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/against-no...

Guru Arjan was not a warrior. He was a poet, a builder, a spiritual architect. He compiled the Adi Granth, the foundational scripture of Sikhi, bringing together not only the words of the Gurus but those of Hindu and Muslim saints as well. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/guru-arjan...

"Each story is a self-contained episode — sometimes sad, often funny, always honest. The book paints a comic and tender portrait of the kind of everyday uprootedness that rarely makes headlines but defines so many lives." medium.com/@CsesznekyMi...

"Each story is a self-contained episode — sometimes sad, often funny, always honest. The book paints a comic and tender portrait of the kind of everyday uprootedness that rarely makes headlines but defines so many lives." medium.com/@CsesznekyMi...

Hungarian-language review of The Masks of Hatred now available: pannonpanda.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-gy...

"Cato did not take his life because of illness or discomfort. He did so when tyranny made it impossible to act freely according to virtue." csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/against-eu...

I have a new Telegram channel in Esperanto. Mi havas novan Telegram-kanalon en Esperanto. t.me/CsesznekyMik...

I have a new Telegram channel in Esperanto. Mi havas novan Telegram-kanalon en Esperanto. t.me/CsesznekyMik...

This is a fascinating essay on some of the confused thinking about MAID. This guy has written other stuff on this subject well worth reading. bsky.app/profile/cses...

"Cato did not take his life because of illness or discomfort. He did so when tyranny made it impossible to act freely according to virtue." csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/against-eu...

Hungarian-language review of The Masks of Hatred now available: pannonpanda.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-gy...

Excellent analysis and article

“To be serious is not to detach. It is to ask more of ourselves than a hashtag. It is to recognise that feeling is not the end of moral life, but its beginning. That it must lead not to expression, but to understanding — & then, perhaps, to action…care that begins & ends with the self helps no one…”

Despite being one of the most visibly distinct faith traditions in the world, Sikhi remains poorly understood in the West. Sikhs are often seen, and just as often misread: their turbans mistaken, their names unfamiliar, their faith largely unknown. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/guru-arjan...

Despite being one of the most visibly distinct faith traditions in the world, Sikhi remains poorly understood in the West. Sikhs are often seen, and just as often misread: their turbans mistaken, their names unfamiliar, their faith largely unknown. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/guru-arjan...

What we call empathy is sometimes only projection. A kind of sentimental narcissism: feeling strongly, not because we’ve drawn closer to the person suffering, but because we’ve brought them into the drama of our own self-perception. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/the-perfor...

What we call empathy is sometimes only projection. A kind of sentimental narcissism: feeling strongly, not because we’ve drawn closer to the person suffering, but because we’ve brought them into the drama of our own self-perception. csesznekymiklos.substack.com/p/the-perfor...