“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — 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
“A lifetime of memories does not provide empirical proof of the value of living. No one memory has a quantifiable value to… — 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
“In war and other difficult enterprises in life, one can expect that people who possess useful skills will also display their share… — 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
“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
“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
“A person experiences time by traveling through the environment consisting of time and space, and encounters a variety of sense impressions. Time… — 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
“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
“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
“In a moment of unusual clarity, we eliminate suffering by not wishing for a different life. When we affirm every manifold of… — 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
“A principled life begins by accepting the evident truth that we must die. Death becomes us. Knowledge of the impermanence of our… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The aim of all life is death. Life is the apprenticeship that we serve preparing for death. Life is the fleeting spark… — 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
“Engaging in meditative self-reflection and gaining increased control of inner experiences provides a person with a sense of control over fear and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The pathos of the human life teaches one that idolatry of the ego is a sham. Only by living in harmonious accord… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Life gives us many gifts that we could hardly imagine. When we let go of preconceptions and witness life without the turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person… — 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
“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
“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
