“Human beings experience sadness because they want what is beyond human ability – absolute control and an immortal life.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A period of darkness is essential in order to expand personal awareness. Experiencing sadness and loss makes a person appreciative of life,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We live in the present with knowledge that the past is alive in us – our history speaks to us. The future… — 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
“Life includes unforeseen incidents that prove critical to promote personal growth. Life rarely gives us what we want. We are lucky if… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Whole life is a search for the splendor of love, companionship, and beauty. When I found you, my search ended, and we… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendor and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“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 has a tendency to provide a person with what they need in order to grow. Our beliefs, what we value in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“I desire to establish a profound state of peacefulness, an imperturbable stillness of mind, an unconditioned mode of being that is free… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque. An artist frequently… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“It is only after a person surrenders achieving “The American Dream,” and annihilates any personal thought of living exclusively for material gain… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A person must find the courage to live a complete and full life. We learn to live when we stop being afraid… — 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
“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Narrative nonfiction is an act of conception and construction; it is formation of a personal legend from the mist of memory using… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of conscientious study of the past… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We are each warriors of our own times. When we step out of our protective shell, we each encounter forces much more… — 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
“Life surrounds us. Each day we witness the plenteous gifts of nature. Even following the most bitterly cold winter, new life waits… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Art is not a metonym for truth telling. All art is a form of a falsifying; otherwise why would anyone need art… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Life is an ongoing journey where the intrepid traveler explores as many tributaries in the river of life as possible. Living consists… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Personal happiness is an end game; it is not an immediate necessity. A person whom attains lasting happiness will necessarily endure many… — 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 Image
“The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
