“Using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions. Ideas derived from real world experiences lead to acquisition of… — 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
“Personal growth commences with an ego death. Self-pride blunts personal growth because the ego resists change. The ego wants to maintain the… — 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
“Self-transformation commences with a period of self-questioning. Questions lead to more questions, bewilderment leads to new discoveries, and growing personal awareness leads… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A person’s work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A personality alters itself through a series of self-referential experiences. We are not the same as the day before. Much as a… — 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
“Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Similar to a how a flower grows incrementally, people also blossom in stages. As we age, we expand our knowledge of how… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“In the world of personal development and spiritual growth, a seeker embarks on a path of self-discovery and self-improvement. A seeker desires… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“There are diverse styles of learning, problem solving, and a range of methodologies that a person can draw from in order to… — 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
