“Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life… — 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
“We do not use writing exclusively to attain perspective upon our self-referential human existence. We dedicate our essayistic existence to witnessing the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Each of us is impermanent wave of energy folded into the infinite cosmic order. Acknowledgement of the fundamental impermanence of ourselves unchains… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The paramount terror that plagues humankind is to live a meaningless life of an exile, an incomplete person whom fails to experience… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Life is too short for fearmongering and becoming ensnarled in lengthy periods of depression. We must use our time judiciously and never… — 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
“Each person must implement their preferred problem solving method to address existential questions pertaining to life and death, living and loving, working… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Each person must develop a wholesome personal response to enduring the hardships of daily life and witnessing the discord, disharmony, dissension, and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The song in our heart ultimately sustains us. Each of us possesses the ability to choose how we perceive life, determine what… — 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
“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
“From childbirth to our deathbeds, we seek to impose our will upon the external environment. At each milepost in life, we seek… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We write, edit, and rewrite the story of our own life employing descriptive words, metaphors, and symbols. Our lives are full of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Humankind devotes much of its collective energy to managing personal and institutional anxiety and dealing with unsuccessful efforts of its civilians to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing acts as a timeless testament to each person’s epic record of adventure, heartache, road to perdition, and achievement of a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“In order to grow sometimes we must cease striving to meet other people’s expectations and begin establishing new goals that develop our… — 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
“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
“Grand failures – the misfortunes of living – provide human beings with an identity. A person is the sum of his or… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“What unites us is our despair. Do other people wish to know that someone else walked this earth with a similar batch… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Meditative thoughts assist people escape a vapid fantasy life and reconnect with ultimate reality.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The manifold of the past, present, and the future all form a single vivacious composition that only exists in the mind’s eye… — 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
