“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
“Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Beauty-in-nature 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
“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
“We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life… — Kilroy J. Oldster Buddhism Copy Share Image
“People frequently ask me why I work so hard - prolong hours, infrequent vacations, and never calling in sick or missing work… — Kilroy J. Oldster Indivisible Copy Share Image
“A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering of our conscious mind and taps into… — Kilroy J. Oldster Conscious mind 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
“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 Appreciating-life 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 Experiences-and-adventures Copy Share Image
“It is up to each one of us to immunize ourselves from any disabling bolts of anger and defend ourselves from the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Acceptance 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 Change your life 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 Books 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 Acts of kindness 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
“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 Adversity Copy Share Image
“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Autobiography 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 Autobiography Copy Share Image
“A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming… — Kilroy J. Oldster Aches and pains Copy Share Image
“All love is bittersweet. Love is inexplicable; it is part poetry and part masochism. Part of love is the loss of self-control… — Kilroy J. Oldster Cease to exist Copy Share Image
“An author’s operating charter is to unearth embedded symbols that reflect complementary and inconsistent relationships of our collective assemblage, combine harmonizing and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Artistic Copy Share Image
“A person’s unfilled desire to find love causes human beings to engage in inexplicable behavior. A person must exhibit the maturity of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Affection 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 Acceptance 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 Adversity Copy Share Image
“Writing places a person in the community of those imaginative spirits whom preceded their birth. Writing also connects a person with the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Author 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 Beauty 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 Future Copy Share Image
“Memory and imagination allow us to enter the womb of creation, devise the lens through which we translate our surroundings, and create… — Kilroy J. Oldster Essayist Copy Share Image
“A person only experiences the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars that constitute reality by giving up the distorting spectacles of our egotistical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“Every person is the master of his or her own destiny. What we think about alters our character. Our character organizes our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Adaption Copy Share Image
