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Writing from the original Stoic tradition, quiet, attentive, rooted in care.
Exploring presence, attention, and what it means to live well.
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Listening for Truth: Weil, Kierkegaard, and Rilke in the Life of a Leader

Leadership is often spoken of in terms of action, influence, and performance. We imagine leaders as people who stand at the front, who speak with clarity and carry a group from one place to another. Yet those who have led…
Listening for Truth: Weil, Kierkegaard, and Rilke in the Life of a Leader
Leadership is often spoken of in terms of action, influence, and performance. We imagine leaders as people who stand at the front, who speak with clarity and carry a group from one place to another. Yet those who have led for any length of time know that the real work begins elsewhere. It begins in the quiet part of a life, in the part that is not on display.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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Didn't I say, "Don't go there,
I am your friend"?
But if your anger takes you
a hundred thousand years,
in the end you will return,
for I am your goal.

Rumi, 13th century

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September 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Rosroe, 1948: Wittgenstein, a fading language, and the silence of the Atlantic. wp.me/pfMewq-kM
Wittgenstein in Rosroe
This essay follows an earlier visit to Skjolden in Norway, where Wittgenstein built his hut. Weeks later I travelled to Rosroe in Ireland, where he lived for a time in a cottage on the Atlantic edg…
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August 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
America’s pursuit of happiness has always carried a shadow, from slavery at the founding to the evasions of painless politics today. My new essay traces how this pursuit weakens democracy and why Ukraine is a test of whether freedom still matters. mattershttps://wp.me/pfMewq-kD
The Pursuit of Happiness at the Price of Ukraine
The pursuit of happiness is one of the most famous promises in political history. When Thomas Jefferson wrote those words into the American Declaration of Independence, he was borrowing from the cu…
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August 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Was Blake mad? Was Margery Kempe? Or did they see something the rest of us try not to? This is about mystics, grief, vision, and what it costs to tell the truth with your whole body. consilium.education/2025/08/03/m...
Margery Kempe, William Blake, and the Meaning of Vision
A reader got in touch after yesterday’s piece on William Blake and the Paolozzi statue of Newton outside the British Library. They ask how I explain Blake’s apparent madness. My first response is t…
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August 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Today, the festival of Lughnasa celebrates Lugh, god of craft and harvest. Today is also the feast of St. Alphonsus Ligouri, a guide in mercy and conscience. Both remind us: wisdom isn’t just knowing, it’s doing things with care. What we do, and how we do it matters. #Lughnasa #StAlphonsus
August 1, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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"Jesus is not knocking on the door of our minds, asking for intellectual agreement, but on the door of our hearts, asking for a response of love."

— The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming
July 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Introduced to Æ (George Russell) by my friend Áine years ago and I'm forever grateful to her for that. Mystic, co-operator, poet of soil and spirit. He died this day 90 years ago. Still, his voice lingers: rooted, visionary, decent and honest. Requiesce in pace, anima pulchra
July 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A few years ago I renovated a derelict house in rural Ireland and slowly turned it into a hedge school for Stoic exploration. This short film tells that story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYMg...
From Grief to Purpose: A Stoic Restoration of a Derelict House
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July 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Writing at consilium.education about presence, grief, attention, and the Stoicism that existed before being hijacked by productivity culture. Building quiet community around the things that matter.
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