“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
“The biggest impediment to loving life is our inflated egos. Only by suppressing our ego and controlling our selfish thoughts can we… — 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
“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
“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
“There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by encountering the world, culling knowledge… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Over time marked with periodic starvation and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A person of large dreams does not allow other people’s opinion to damper his or her zestfulness. Overcoming fear of making an… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Living in the moment is not an excuse to be a ne'er-do-well. A person can give up on life or immerse themselves… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“All life depends upon the opportunistic interplay between elemental forces, the mysterious dualities of the numinous universe. Ying and yang forces of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We live in a world of shadow and light, pain and joy. We spend our entire lives investigating the many possible patterns… — 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
“The outcome of my cumulative life’s work is still undetermined. Chance, fate, attitude, aptitude, and preparedness to pursue new opportunities will regulate… — 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
“Every plant, tree, and animal is a blessing and every person has a purpose for living. Courage, curiosity, and generosity produce noble… — 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
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing is one method for revising a person’s outlook on life and observing the world and one’s place therein from an altered… — 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 elements of trial and error, similar to earth and sky, and fire and water, delineates the constituent modules of our lives.… — 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
“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Witnessing the panoply of beauty in all of nature takes us out of our shell of self-absorption and makes us realize that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Self-questioning and self-identification go hand in hand. It is surprising how little life changes. Most of the days that we spend working,… — 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
“Living with love for all humankind and worshiping nature’s immense beauty cures heartache and restores bliss. Respecting the splendor of nature awakens… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task,… — 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
“The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun… — 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
“Any meaning of life derives from amiably accepting our anonymous role in the singular order of the universe. Such gracious reception of… — 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
“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
“Nature provided human beings with all the gemstones needed to attain happiness – physical abilities, intellectual and cognitive capacity, and emotional indexes,… — 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
“Character modification requires active participation in challenging new experiences, but without reflection upon our encounters in life and the purposeful alteration in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The more a person knows the less they talk. I shall cease speaking and endeavor to instill a large band of silence… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“None of us commences life utterly alone. We each carry within our granular mass the protoplasm residue of past generations’ ideas, customs,… — 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
