“Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Life is only meaningless if we fail to make a resolute effort at achieving bliss, attaining the active state of oneness that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Existential anguish derives from the human freedom to think and act, experience love for life, and fear death. We must decide whether… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Maniacal obsession can be a destructive or a transformative psychic force. What is unacceptable is a life of blandness, not to dare… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Every road leads to sorrow. All aspects that make life beautiful – friendship, love, art, and truth – will end. All aspects… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of the mind and body, and expect… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Our reward for surviving the hard knocks of a corporal life is arguably paltry. The inevitability of the big sleep is our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Emotional exhaustion follows fast on the footsteps of physical and mental depletion. I feel my lifeblood draining away in an oily spigot… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history allows us to collate our interactions with a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“All writers are demonic dreamers. Writing is an act of sharing experiences and offering of an individualistic perspective of our private attitudes… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Disharmony at home or work is toxic to a person’s physical disposition and mental health.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“A period of darkness is essential in order to expand personal awareness. Experiencing sadness and loss makes a person appreciative of life, more tenderhearted,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“A person writes similar to how a blind person uses brail. We grope along the palpable corridors of the mind’s organic texture to locate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“People frequently ask me why I work so hard - prolong hours, infrequent vacations, and never calling in sick or missing work for any… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“The ego is the culmination of our preferences and dislikes. Our ego represents the firm edges of how we perceive ourselves. An ego death… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a long nap,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
“It is up to each one of us to immunize ourselves from any disabling bolts of anger and defend ourselves from the thunderstorms of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share
