Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls Quotes
To ask who we are represents a primary reflex in human consciousness. Every person seeks to understand him or herself and reach a verifiable and cohesive image of his or her own identity.
Pent-up anger is oftentimes more destructive than a good quarrel.
Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.
We are always in the process of becoming. Self-identity is a fusion of our prior decisions and our current thoughts.
A journey of the mind – a written vision quest – has only one goal: to interact with the world and attempt to develop the dormant intellectual and spiritual awareness of the author.
The best way to determine a person’s character is to judge them when their world is falling apart.
How we respond to tragedy is the hallmark of character. Suffering a great loss places us at a spiritual milepost. The wind of our souls can either sour and wither or rejoice and thrive.
Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.
The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied we are to the sprung rhythms of earth and sky, weather and season.
Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.
Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily fluids.
It is important to measure ourselves at least once in life, undertake a personal odyssey that constructs a clarifying prism of our being.
Through our work and play, each of us eventually becomes a personification of what we cherish in life.
A person archives self-realization by engaging in deliberate contemplative acts that serve to unify of all aspects of the self. To deny part of the self, a person risks spiritual decay.
Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.
A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.
A noble journey through the travails of time calls for a person to disregard conventional social, cultural, and moral contexts and strive to cleave a personal meaning that guides their existence.
Irrespective of what religious or intellectual philosophy guides an enlightened person’s life plan, self-mastery plays an important, if not quintessential role.
Philosophic concepts are a form of sentiment. Conflicts between lofty ideas and vouchsafed values are endemic for any thinking person.
Mindfulness can serve as an antidote to living a fragmental life riven with deleterious delusions and illusions.
Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.
The most regretful behavior always leaches from a wound to our sanctimonious pride.
Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.
A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.
Summers end to soon just as childhood ends before we apprehend the effervescent of our youth.
Summertime is a period for youthful explorations, a joyful time when we learn lessons without grand expectations or harsh consequences.
Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.
The psyche of some people, whether through innate structure or via adaption to personal experiences, is uniquely adept for absolute aloneness.
A person realizes inner calm and a state of rapturous peacefulness with nature whenever they stand in solitude and contemplate their existence in an infinite world filled with multiple galaxies.
In the modern world, human beings display little tolerance for waiting. We are addicted to fast food, instant messaging, and other conveniences of life. Patience is a lost virtue.
The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.
Without parlaying with the renunciation of the world, a person must establish a means to live in harmony with the uncertainties of a chaotic world.
Attempting to succeed in a competitive external environment, we can lose track of how to live without anxiety.
The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person could never conceive or direct.
We can only hope to live a meaningful life by serving as earnest witnesses to life’s tragic beauty.
The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world.
A person must always be ready to kindle the candle in their heart and fill the void in their soul by unveiling into a courageous, peaceful, and loving person.
Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature.
Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind.
A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.
All people share doubts. The lingering question that eventually worms it way into all thinking people’s brain is how to live splendidly and how to die without remorse and regret.
Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation.
A dreamer rises above their inherent fearfulness that they will always produce inferior work and grants oneself a license to put forth their best effort.
An ethical idealist, a person whom embraces the honorable philosophy of ethical idealism, performs acts that are honest, pure, and righteous regardless of their fearfulness.
Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy.
Writing is one means to investigate the mystique of life. Each fresh page is an unsullied canvas that an inquisitive writer employs to explore the poetic transience behind their existence.