“The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Compassion Copy Share Image
“Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Human condition Copy Share Image
“A person must be in tune with the light and dark forces of their nature and remain in harmony with the bands… — Kilroy J. Oldster Dark Copy Share Image
“Meditative thoughts assist people escape a vapid fantasy life and reconnect with ultimate reality.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Fantasy life Copy Share Image
“Writing is a disciplined, methodical, and systematic method that a person can logically employ to awaken dominant layers of consciousness.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Memoir-writing Copy Share Image
“The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair… — Kilroy J. Oldster Art Copy Share Image
“Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Aging Copy Share Image
“Self-healing requires tremendous action, a willingness to go beyond the normative to discover something transcending.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Healing Copy Share Image
“The path towards living in a spiritual manner begins by eliminating inculcated cultural biases, destroying personal illusions, and gratefully accepting the world… — Kilroy J. Oldster Acceptance Copy Share Image
“Each soul must awaken from the aloneness of a private dream world to greet the morning sun, view the sweet earth, apprehend… — Kilroy J. Oldster Appreciative Copy Share Image
“A person devoted to attaining self-realization would be foolish to ignore the well-intended advice of people whom care about them. Although it… — Kilroy J. Oldster Identity 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 Anxiety 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;… — Kilroy J. Oldster Ancestors 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,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Darkness Copy Share Image
“Sentence making is an act of questing into unexplored regions, probing the anarchy of daylight, and exploring the troubling confusion and turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster Essayist Copy Share Image
“The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied… — Kilroy J. Oldster Changing-seasons Copy Share Image
“Self-love and compassion for other people commences with accepting responsibility for the harm caused by our own misconduct and by forgiving other… — Kilroy J. Oldster Accepting responsibility 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… — Kilroy J. Oldster Death 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 Death 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 Art 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 Dualism Copy Share Image
“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Authenticity Copy Share Image
“Every day part of our mind exercises are devoted to bracing ourselves against the advancing penultimate act that foreshadows our sorrowful ultimate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Black ice Copy Share Image
“Inside each of us is a deep well of translucent water. A fluidity of thoughts and luminous feelings surrounds you and me.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Affection 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 Authentic life Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Autobiography Copy Share Image
“Writers’ never-ending quest involves investigating genuineness while carving out narrative nonfiction. They must strive to reach great truths by recounting untold lies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Adventure 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 Aging 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 Art Copy Share Image
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Human spirit 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 Aspects of life Copy Share Image
“Writing is an effort at truth telling, but each person’s version of truth and his or her means of conveying it are… — Kilroy J. Oldster Artistic expression Copy Share Image
“All honest effort produces lessons. We must embrace every type of learning, even failure.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Education Copy Share Image
“Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Alone Copy Share Image
“Disharmony at home or work is toxic to a person’s physical disposition and mental health.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Balance-in-life Copy Share Image
“Desperate and dammed persons share an affinity for flirting with danger; an infectious case of erotic morbidity fetters them to self-destruction.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Danger Copy Share Image
“A person must make peace with oneself before they will find peace with the world.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Mindfulness 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Our daily habits – honorable and dishonorable, noble and ignoble, vital and vile – are revelatory. Our sense of self is fashioned… — Kilroy J. Oldster Coffee Copy Share Image
“The irony that all writers confront and must overcome is that the writer is afraid to commence, frightened to finish what is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Autobiography Copy Share Image
