“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
“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 Art Copy Share Image
“A writer’s amulets include explication, free association, parallelism, antithesis, and epiphany to create a silhouette of that which heretofore did not exist… — Kilroy J. Oldster Writers 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
“Thinking is a form of action, a means of activating our most cherished dreams. We can dwell in a negative world of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Dreamer 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
“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Essay writing Copy Share Image
“I desire to establish a profound state of peacefulness, an imperturbable stillness of mind, an unconditioned mode of being that is free… — Kilroy J. Oldster Artists-life 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
“All people intuitively seek emotional equanimity, freedom from anxiety, distress, and trepidation that might cause a person to lose symmetrical balance of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Creating Copy Share Image
“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 Experience Copy Share Image
“Hate corrodes the fibrous material of the self. The presence or absence of the emotions of love and hate acts a catalytic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Hate 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
“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain… — Kilroy J. Oldster Death 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 Beauty-of-nature 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 word after word represents a type of power, the sort of command that a person amasses slowly with thoughtful inquiry.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Essayist 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 Beauty Copy Share Image
“The closest bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Bereavement Copy Share Image
“Love, reverence, and adoration, are multifaceted emotions. Similar to a painting by an artist, how we respond to a beautiful woman, nature,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Art 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 Art Copy Share Image
“We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by… — Kilroy J. Oldster Compassion 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 Knowing oneself 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 Character Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Autobiography Copy Share Image
