Kilroy J. Oldster Quotes
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.
The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world.
An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.
Living with love for all humankind and worshiping nature’s immense beauty cures heartache and restores bliss. Respecting the splendor of nature awakens us to the beauty inscribing our own humanity.
Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.
Virtually every tribe in the march towards civilization developed its tailored made initiation practices. In America, sports are part of the test for a young man’s initiation into manhood.
The life of hero is the tale of a person overcoming personal hardship and obstacles while striving to achieve an exultant victory that voices repressed citizens’ ecstatic thoughts and dreams.
Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to the forerunner generations of humankind.
A common human error is a tendency to recognize personal truths as universal truths.
Living is a constant process of debunking our romantic notions of how our personal life will unfold. Reality oftentimes fails to meet a person’s glamorous expectations.
Writing fiction or nonfiction is a lonely battle wrestling with sentences in an effort to put together an intelligible thought that speaks for the author.
The tragedy of life is not death, but fearing to live, allowing parts of us to wilt and die instead of flower and rejoice.
Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man’s life, but the end of a book of man, the beautiful conclusion to his yearnings.
A writer must be willing to leave oneself behind in order to explore new territories of the mind and unearth primordial truths that startle and frighten us.
Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.
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.
Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.
Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Attempting to succeed in a competitive external environment, we can lose track of how to live without anxiety.
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.
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.
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.