Reflections Keanu Reeves and the Cheapest Trick in the Book
He keeps going viral for the same unremarkable act: giving up his seat, sitting with a stranger, actually being where he is.
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Reflections Dolly Parton Never Got Bored of the Work
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 Bruce Lee and the Shape of Water
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 The Lilies Do Not Spin
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 Suzuki and the Beginner's Advantage
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 and the Ten Years Nobody Saw
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 Rilke and the Questions You Can't Answer Yet
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 and Going Out Was Really Going In
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 What You Protect Determines What You Build
Attention is not infinite. Whatever you let into it is shaping you, whether or not you invited it.
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Reflections The Splinter in Your Brother's Eye (And the Plank in Yours)
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's Two Arrows
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 Seinfeld Already Explained Your Sleep Schedule
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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