James Donovan (Tom Hanks)

‘Would it help?”

February 15, 2020

In the film Bridge of Spies (2015), James Donovan (Tom Hanks) is an attorney who agrees to represent a captured Russian spy, Rudolph Abel (Mark Rylance). There is this brief exchange: Donovan: I have a mandate to serve you. Nobody…

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Life moves on with us or without us. The choice is ours.

May 28, 2017

In a recent blog post, Josh Linkner shares this anecdote: Two Zen monks were on a journey when they came to a riverbed. At the edge of the river was an elderly woman who was unable to cross the river…

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Life moves on with or without us. The choice is ours.

April 25, 2017

In a recent blog post, Josh Linkner shares this anecdote: Two Zen monks were on a journey when they came to a riverbed. At the edge of the river was an elderly woman who was unable to cross the river…

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