Kilroy J. Oldster

“Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Our thoughts and feelings make us whereas love and beauty sustain us.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Our hero’s reflect a projection of our deepest selves.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The simple life is an authentic life.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Rejection of desire is liberating. Renunciation is a form of power.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A person can suffer from a lack of dreams.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“We are made of flesh that bruises and bleeds, bones that break, and a mind that is susceptible to wild mood swings.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing word after word represents a type of power, the sort of command that a person amasses slowly with thoughtful inquiry.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Living an engaged and contemplative existence allows a person to glean the quintessential experience of living mindfully.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Grand failures – the misfortunes of living – provide human beings with an identity. A person is the sum of his or…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“We create our sense of self by merging our fragmented thoughts in a coherent conception of our being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Humankind demonstrates an unerring ability to witness beauty. By observing nature’s beauty and striving to create beautiful things, humankind brokers its own…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Each soul must awaken from the aloneness of a private dream world to greet the morning sun, view the sweet earth, apprehend…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A person devoted to attaining self-realization would be foolish to ignore the well-intended advice of people whom care about them. Although it…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The nonessential employees, the type of workers whom remain at home when it snows, are the quickest to complain about how the…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Human consciousness is a law of nature. Humankind’s inherent intelligence is an indivisible component inalterably linked to the whole beatitude of the…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The greatest challenge in life is to be our own person and accept that being different is a blessing and not a…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Narcissistic pleasure seekers routinely avoid developing the humility required to manufacture a life of full measure. Shallow persons such as me hide…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Self-education is a lifetime affair. In life, as in science, there are unsuccessful experiments. Difficult personal and professional experiences are not for…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Alarm clocks are the bane of humanity. Sleep inertia, the decline in motor dexterity, subjective feeling of grogginess, and impaired state of…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demonstrates the writer’s innate capacity to meld…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Unlike uplifting light fiction, narrative nonfiction’s trammeled territory provides no safe room where an unnerved writer can banish their unpleasant memories. Narrative…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the author’s intrinsic limitations, personal vantage point, and…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“One of the universally despised sins is hypocrisy, falsely pretending to hold beliefs, feelings, standards qualities, opinions, virtues, motivations, or other characteristics…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human;…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Language is our identity tool and by using experience, observation, and imagination, we each discover the words that give voice to our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“High performers whom exhibit tremendous self-control tend to be burden by their own competence. Studies indicate that being extraordinary competent can place…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Human beings experience sadness because they want what is beyond human ability – absolute control and an immortal life.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster