Life gives us many gifts that we could hardly imagine. When we let go of preconceptions and witness life without the turmoil that a self-indulgent ego perpetuates we perceive what heretofore eluded us.

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KILROY J. OLDSTER A person of large dreams does not allow other people’s opinion to damper his or her zestfulness. O...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Large families are communities unto their own.
KILROY J. OLDSTER We learn to love by basking in the love of other people. We learn how to express our love and our wa...
KILROY J. OLDSTER It is foolishness to want what never was or will never will be, lament the passage of time, and live...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The human mind’s innate ability to imagine and create ensures that we never remain stalled out in ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Self-knowledge, a spiritual metamorphosis, precedes understanding other people and comprehending the...
KILROY J. OLDSTER A person au fait with the millenarian edict of knowing oneself does not need a tattoo, pierced ear, ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The ongoing struggle to achieve a profound harmony between the deepest and most conflicting impulses...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Self-deception and vanity are grievous sin. The ego is the cause of all human suffering. We suffer f...
KILROY J. OLDSTER A life of hardship and personal suffering is unavoidable. A person must endure many humiliations of ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The dimension of space and time, represented by what is transpiring in the here and now, is all that...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The impeccable watchmaker geared the noble self to suffer. The ineluctable part of being human is pe...
KILROY J. OLDSTER No person can escape the germs of their eventual deterioration and destruction. A round-table of phy...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Every unpleasant worldly experience in life exposes our sensitive nervous systems to painful phenome...
KILROY J. OLDSTER A shaman and a writer each serve as their communities’ seers by engaging in extraordinary acts of ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Families share relationships based not only blood, but also the unique affiliation of a terribly lon...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cul...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters i...
KILROY J. OLDSTER We are what comes to us and by what we choose to fulfill. We learn love by experiencing other people...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Inside each of us is a deep well of translucent water. A fluidity of thoughts and luminous feelings ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a caba...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Dissimilar from acquiring riches and fame, which are largely products of providence, we self-manufac...
KILROY J. OLDSTER A person whom works exclusively for money places a price tag on his or her soul. A person whom labor...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of realit...
KILROY J. OLDSTER People exercise the freedom to present themselves from a vast array of precepts. The modern human mi...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation i...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Many aspects of the human condition are beautiful and many others are vile. Betrayal and personal ag...
KILROY J. OLDSTER No one wants to occupy a black hole of sadness and despair or slip on the tight rope that separates ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous l...
KILROY J. OLDSTER A person whom is dissatisfied with the existing constitution of the self might wish to eradicate the...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The ego is the culmination of our preferences and dislikes. Our ego represents the firm edges of how...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Aristotle declared that, ‘It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought wit...
KILROY J. OLDSTER We live mindfully by harvesting evocative scenes to pay attention to including the mountains and oce...
KILROY J. OLDSTER A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace t...
KILROY J. OLDSTER All overt and covert emotions would shrivel without the beam of contrast and comparison to supply co...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Life flows at ease whenever a person ceases complaining about the past, worrying about the future, l...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings sta...
KILROY J. OLDSTER We write our personal story as intermittent authors; the narrator is always searching for a unitive ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER The foremost calling of the human brain is to script a safe, secure, and joyous future for a person.
KILROY J. OLDSTER There are many standards to measure if a person was successful including did they fill a niche role ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER

Life gives us many gifts that we could hardly imagine. When we let go of preconceptions and witness life without the turmoil that a self-indulgent ego perpetuates we perceive what heretofore eluded us.

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Life gives us many gifts that we could hardly imagine. When we let go of preconceptions and witness life without the turmoil that a self-indulgent ego perpetuates we perceive what heretofore eluded us.

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