Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson s Ethics for Rascals written by Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ETHICS FOR RASCALS spotlights the romantic adventures, provocative ethics, and playful philosophy of the prince of storytellers, Robert Louis Stevenson, quixotic wanderer and prototype for Sir James M. Barries Peter Pan. This unique introduction to RLS and his spirited mate, Fanny Osbourne -- who fell in love in the romantic environs of Paris and married under the spell of California's Big Sur-Monterey coast -- throws down the gauntlet, daring readers to turn every trial into an adventure, to do nothing that insults their own souls, and to have a little open-hearted fun along the way to El dorado. Recognizing the inner illumination of even the humblest life, Stevenson urges: "Find out where joy resides, and give it a voice far beyond singing. For to miss the joy is to miss all. In the joy of the actors lies the sense of any action. That is the explanation, that the excuse!"
Download or read book Shepherds of Pan on the Big Sur Monterey Coast written by Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHEPHERDS OF PAN ON THE BIG SUR-MONTEREY COAST is a medley of lively, literate essays about the Nature wisdom linking some unlikely bedfellows: Robert Louis Stevenson, Gertrude Atherton, Jack London, Robinson Jeffers, Jaime de Angulo, John Steinbeck, Eric Barker, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and others, with a pertinent postscript on William James, father of American psychology. All these luminaries came to perceive divinity in the awesome, double-dealing power of Nature, symbolized by the Greek god Pan. Many became pantheists, or nature mystics, under the spell of the alternately soft and violent landscape of Californias central coast. The book is a multicolored meditation on a deeply rooted -- and often overlooked -- human need to reconnect with Nature, wellspring of our inner joy and psychic wholeness.
Download or read book The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traveling Backward written by Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRAVELING BACKWARD is a highly original philosophic romp beyond the youth of old age with a quixotic ‘journalist turned mom turned academic turned peasant.’ It’s a kind of light-hearted guide to the wisdom of the ages—from Socrates to existentialism and beyond—gleaned during a struggle to recover the images that fi rst touched her heart and to answer two questions: Who am I really? Where does the world come from? It’s a colorful, occasionally poignant, journey that could help you look at life through the reverent eyes of a child again. GLIMPSES OF ‘TRAVELING BACKWARD’ : “You two remind me of Peter Pan. Trouble is, I’m not sure which one of you is Peter Pan. Well, I was taken aback. But my mate took action. Muttering something negative about fairy stories, he headed for the door and disappeared down the hall. I started to follow him but changed my mind. Instead, I headed for the public library to reread Peter Pan. Had I missed something?” (Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick) “Human life – indeed all life – is poetry. It’s we who live it, unconsciously, day by day. . . Yet in its inviolable wholeness it lives us, it composes us. . . We are works of art, but we are not the artist. . . Dare everything, need nothing.” (Lou Andreas—Salome) “I relate to [Andreas—Salome’s] passionate struggle for truth, to her ultimate reverence for all life, and to her desire to enjoy intellectual friendships with a variety of men, free of sexual overtones.” (Fitzpatrick) “I was discovering that, deep down, I didn’t really ‘take’ to popular culture, crowds, and bustling cities, regardless of my curiosity, regardless of my journalist’s delight in writing about all of it.” (Fitzpatrick) “If you can’t change the world, change worlds.” (St. Francis of Assisi) “If I were ever to choose a place away from my country, it would surely be a Greek island, outside Athens. . . In Greece, I feel completely at home. Maybe that’s because, as the poet Shelley said, ‘We’re all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their roots in Greece.” (Fitzpatrick) “Back straight and head held high, he would place his left arm on my right shoulder, snap his fingers and lead me in the graceful, deliberate movements of the Zorba dance, accompanied by a recording of Mozart’s 40th played on the bouzouki. This against a backdrop of tinkling goat bells and singing monks gathered in a distant church.” (Fitzpatrick) “Many of the highs and lows in my life. . . have resulted from conflict born of the struggle between my own strong loving, nesting needs and my equally strong needs for freedom to think, to adventure, to discover, to express myself.” (Fitzpatrick) “All parts of this one organic whole – this one God – are different expressions of the same energy, and they are all in communication with each other, influencing each other, therefore parts of one organic whole.” (Robinson Jeffers) “How did matter happen that makes the stars and cool planets and living beings? And how did the space happen that contains the stars and planets?. . . Much is still very hypothetical. Much is still unknown. Much, we will never know. . . Life is struggle, pain and suffering. But it is also extraordinarily glorious creativity.” (Dr. Kai Woehler) “Like Socrates, I’ve experienced an inner voice that usually let’s me know when I’m about to go off-track, and I’ve come to believe, with Kant, in a moral law within.” (Fitzpatrick) “Nature’ – wonderful and awe-inspiring as it is – can’t participate in a verbal dialogue, can’t exchange and explore ideas with the human mind. We can relate to the animals, the birds, the insects, the fish, and the flora with our most primitive instincts and feel joy, spiritual ecstasy in so recognizing our kinship. Yet nothing in Nature can compare with the human need for a warm
Download or read book Transforming Despair written by Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick MS and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRANSFORMING DESPAIR IS A CANDID, HEARTENING, OCCASIONALLY PLAYFUL BOOK ROOTED IN THE PRAGMATISM OF WILLIAM JAMES, FATHER OF AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY AND PRIME MOVER OF BILL WILSON, FOUNDER OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS. TAPPING INTO WISDOM OF JAMES, THE AUTHOR SUGGESTS POSSIBILITIES FOR TRANSFORMING AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS INTO A MANUAL OF HAPPINESS ORGANICALLY, WITHOUT CHRONIC DEPENDENCE ON MEDS.
Download or read book Our Quixotic Robert Louis Stevenson written by Elayne Wareing Fitzpatrick and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OUR QUIXOTIC ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: NOBLE RASCAL, EXPIRING WANDERER, ARCH BOHEMIAN, PRINCE OF STORYTELLERS is at once biographical and philosophical. It's a love story vividly detailing the quixotic adventure-filled years Stevenson spent with his stormy side-kick Fanny in France, Monterey, San Francisco and the South Seas. Overall, it's about 'ethics for rascals' and 'hints for glad living' from the cradle to the grave.
Download or read book The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Ethical studies Edingburgh picturesque notes written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lay Morals written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lay Morals and Other Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral Emblems written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-25 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson
Download or read book The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Juvenilia Moral emblems Fables and other papers written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Lay Morals and Other Papers written by Stevenson R.L. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, travel writer, and essayist. He was a celebrity during his lifetime for works like “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Treasure Island.” Now he is one o f the most translated authors in the world. “Lay Morals and Other Papers” is a wonderful collection of essays including works like “Father Damien,” “The Pentland Rising,” “The Day After To-morrow,” and “The Great North Road.”
Download or read book Lay Morals And Other Papers written by Robert Louis Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by Robert Louis Stevenson
