Telling other people our life story changes us in a startling and profound way. The act of telling demands selection, prioritization, evaluation, and synthesis, which intellectual activities increase understanding, make us more sensitive to key distinctions in principles, and expand our empathy for other people.


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KILROY J. OLDSTER
All forms of creative thinking involve a struggle to conquer or master something, and usually that s...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Writing is an effort at truth telling, but each person’s version of truth and his or her means of ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
A writing tablet evidences the writer’s mind shadows, the dark twin that sketches the meandering o...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyli...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Writing is a pitched battle with the elusive self, a contest that resultant celebratory jubilee demo...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
The quality of any author’s effort at personal writing and thematic commentary hinges upon the aut...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
A person gathers all their resources to compose a foursquare philosophy for surviving each day, an e...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Writers’ never-ending quest involves investigating genuineness while carving out narrative nonfict...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The sto...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
All people intuitively seek emotional equanimity, freedom from anxiety, distress, and trepidation th...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Life surrounds us. Each day we witness the plenteous gifts of nature. Even following the most bitter...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Stored personal memories along with handed down collective memories of stories, legends, and history...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
A person must never live a lie. We free ourselves to live a full life by discovering the courage to ...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to...
KILROY J. OLDSTER
How to earn a viable standard of living while giving vent to their desire to perform creative activi...
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