“Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.” — 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
“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
“Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“What gives a person’s brief time on this planet meaning is engaging in small acts of kindness. Bestowing an act of kindness… — 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
“A feistiness of spirit girds us in the most treacherous of moments. A metamorphosis of spirit often occurs after a person conscientiously… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneously in the present moment of physical reality,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We each want nothing more than to live for the moment. Nature hardwired us perpetually to follow the call of the wild,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good… — 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
“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
“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
“Joy always follows on the heels of pain. If a person escapes a mindset that current events represent an ongoing tragedy, they… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“As we age, we become more aware of the rarity and exquisiteness of beauty, and come to admire the flowers blooming amongst… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“There are times in life that we ascribe qualities or traits to other people that are inaccurate or fail to recognize other… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am… — 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… — 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
“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
“We come into a world with a history shaped by the subtle dichotomy of culture and ethos, the dynamic forces of ideas… — 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
“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
“This scroll is my personal obituary, a journal that documents my time toiling on this rocky orb. I labored to say who… — 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
“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
