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About Me

I would like to make the world a better place.

I have had many experiences, lived many lives, had many jobs, and known and loved many wonderful people. My most profound job experieces were as a public school teacher. I found myself having to tell young children who were deeply unhappy how they could have a happy and prosperous life. That experience led me to search for a non-religious book of wisdom that could be used by school teachers as a resource.

My search for non-religious wisdom led me to ancient Chinese writings. What I discovered changed my life, and I wrote a book to share what I have found: "Achieve Lasting Happiness, Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Life".

"Achieve Lasting Happiness" is available at www.AuthorHouse.com and Amazon.com

Check out my other blogs

Timeless WayNew ConfucianEducation for the 21st CenturyHispanic Vision

I have a few websites you might find interesting. The Timeless Way Foundation is about educational reform based on the Great Learning (the Da Xue). Achieve Lasting Happiness is about my book. The Timeless Way Institute promotes the Timeless Way as universal ethics. There is also a Yahoo Group, The Timeless Way, Dallas that has lots of info.

I'm a West Wing fan. Check out these West Wing websites

West Wing Episode Guide Bartlet 4 America Foot Note TV West Wing Transcripts More West Wing Transcipts West Wing Quotations from Wikiquote

My Interests

Philosophy, Ethics, Confucianism, Education, Globalism

I'd like to meet:

Thoughtful people with positive attitude.

Music:

Rock, Folk, Blues, Opera, Classical. Guitarists: Mike Bloomfield, Johnny Winter. Albums I recommend: "Wheels of Fire" by Cream, The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East. "Celtic Woman" by the group Celtic Woman. The soundtrack to the movie "Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man". "Cheap Thrills" by Big Brother and the Holding Company (with Janis Joplin), "Dies Irae" (from Verdi's Requiem), "Catch a Rising Star" by John Gary

Movies:

"The Lion in Winter", "The Wind and the Lion", "Casablanca", "The Quiet Man", "Beau Geste" with Gary Cooper, "V for Vendetta", "Kung Fu Hustle", "The Matrix", "Lord of the Rings", "The Seven Samurai", "We Were Soldiers" starring Mel Gibson, Peter Brook's "The Mahabharata", Science Fiction and Scary Movies in general.

Television:

Star Trek, Babylon 5, Stargate SG-1, Millennium, Andromeda, Earth the Final Conflict, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, West Wing

Books:

"Achieve Lasting Happiness, Timeless Secrets to Transform Your Life" by Robert Canright, "The Plague" by Albert Camus, "Catch-22", "Here Before Kilroy" by Su Walton, The Mayfair Witches series by Anne Rice: "The Witching Hour", "Lasher", and "Taltos"; Robert E. Howard's Conan books, Science Fiction, particularly "Childhood's End" by Arthur C. Clarke, "Sinister Barrier" by Eric Frank Russell

Heroes:

Confucius

My Blog

Book: "Stranger in a Strange Land"

I read Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein when I was a kid. I liked a lot of Heinlein's books, but not this one. I did not like it then, and I still don't like it.There are i...
Posted by Robert the Author on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:32:00 PST

Music: "Hayley Westenra"

Hayley Westenra was on PBS last night, singing "Oh, Shenandoa" on a 4th of July special. That was an awesome performance. She has a fantastic voice. I have her "Odyssey" album and recommen...
Posted by Robert the Author on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:30:00 PST

The Four Step Process and the Eightfold Path

In my book I describe a Four Step Process for Self-Transformation.I've compared it to the Eightfold Path of Buddhism in this blog post in my "Timeless Way" Blog. I discuss an American view of Co...
Posted by Robert the Author on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:54:00 PST

Movies and Moral Education

I've mention in an earlier blog that I have shown The Inn of the Sixth Happiness and The Keys of the Kingdom to my son for his moral education. We watched the "Keys" first, then the "Inn" later ...
Posted by Robert the Author on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:59:00 PST

Randy Pauschs Last Lecture

You might have heard of Randy Pausch. If you've read an article about his last lecture, say in Time or Readers Digest, you owe it to yourself to read the lecture yourself.A "last lecture" is a l...
Posted by Robert the Author on Sat, 14 Jun 2008 02:35:00 PST

Song: "Suzanne" by Leonard Cohen

I have listened to the song, Suzanne, by Leonard Cohen for years, decades actually. I listened to it again this week and it seemed to me to be like a 3 act play. Depending on how it is sung, eac...
Posted by Robert the Author on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:23:00 PST

Movie: "Six Degrees of Separation"

I finally checked out a copy of the 1993 movie, "Six Degrees of Separtion." I had just finished a West Wing episode and was impressed with Stockard Channing's work, checked out her work on IMDB....
Posted by Robert the Author on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:27:00 PST

Ron Paul in Style

This is interesting, an article about a politician in the Style section of the New York Times! "It's Not a Campaign, It's a Mission" by Alex Williams is in the May 25, 2008 Sunday NY Times Style secti...
Posted by Robert the Author on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 04:41:00 PST

West Wing: Wheres my jet pack?

There is a fabulous piece of dialog in West Wing that goes like this:Leo: My generation never got the future it was promised... Thirty-five years later, cars, air travel is exactly the same. We don't ...
Posted by Robert the Author on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:32:00 PST

The Aeneid by Virgil

I listened to the Aeneid by Virgil on audio CD, the translation by Robert Fagles. You can catch a nice synopsis of it on Cliffs Notes and you can read it for free on the internet because the translati...
Posted by Robert the Author on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:57:00 PST