Leave Your Mark — essays and old wisdom on living well.
Reflections Sixty years into a career she didn't need anymore, she's still opening the gates to a theme park she built so kids from her hometown could keep their parents employed.
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Reflections Be water, making its way through cracks. Lee meant it as combat advice. It works just as well as a theory of how to live.
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Reflections Jesus pointed at a field of flowers and told a crowd of anxious people to look at how hard the flowers were not working. It is still good advice, and still hard to take.
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Reflections A Zen teacher told his American students that the beginner has it better than the expert. Not as encouragement — as an actual claim about how minds get stuck.
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Reflections Steve Martin became famous seemingly overnight in the late 1970s. The overnight part took ten years, and he wrote a whole memoir just to set the record straight.
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Reflections A 27-year-old poet wrote letters to a teenage cadet who wanted to know if his poems were any good. Rilke barely answered that question — and instead gave advice that's outlasted both of them.
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Reflections John Muir spent years walking into the Sierra Nevada to get away from people. He came back calling it 'going home.' The wording was not an accident.
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Reflections Attention is not infinite. Whatever you let into it is shaping you, whether or not you invited it.
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Reflections Jesus described a man performing delicate eye surgery on his neighbor while walking around with a 2x4 sticking out of his own face. He meant it as a joke. He also meant it.
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Reflections The Buddha asked his students a strange question: when you're hit by an arrow, does it hurt? Then he asked what happens when a second arrow hits the exact same spot.
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Reflections Jerry Seinfeld has a bit about Night Guy and Morning Guy, two roommates who hate each other and never actually meet. It is the most accurate description of human nature ever delivered in a comedy club.
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Reflections Two teams raced to the South Pole in 1911. One planned for boredom. The other planned for glory. Only one of them came home.
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