Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls Quotes
In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.
Memory, imagination, and passionately responding in accord with the deeply embedded impulse to act with decency are pliable mechanisms that we can employ to attain happiness.
Every child matures, which is both a blessing and a damn shame. Children can imagine worlds that never exist, worlds far more interesting and consoling than an adult knows.
We learn invaluable life lessons from people whom exhibit courage and grace under extraordinary circumstances.
Human beings are self-motivated. The two desires that spur human action are hunger and love. Without memory, humankind would no longer hunger for love.
Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because it reminds us of who fed us a meal.
We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that our brethren experience.
We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.
We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life.
Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love.
A person’s attitude creates the tone of his or her life. The highest expression of human dignity is to live a purposeful life devoted to principles and exhibiting compassion for other people.
Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting soul.
Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate.
We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.
We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
A person must move beyond guilt and unexamined thoughts and motives in order to discover a purpose for living vibrantly.
All of our thoughts – ideas – are traceable to a sensation, an encounter with the world that leaves an impression upon the mind.
We cannot measure a person’s value to the human race by tabulating the size of his estate. We must judge each person by his or her final contribution to humanity and nature.
Embracing human frailty, fallibility, and heartbreaking aloneness is crucial for any person seeking to attain self-actualization and self-realization.
A bird with a broken wing cannot survive nor will a man with a broken spirit endure.
Writing about the self to spur intellectual growth or attain a teardrop of emotional salvation is akin to a fish attempting to construct a net that will capture itself.
Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude.
We employ free will to design of our own being and therefore we must accept responsibility for our actions.
Liberating a prejudiced mind from its preconceived notions and scripting a life of purposefulness requires constant postulation, observation, evaluation, and synthesizing.
A life of leisure never satisfies anyone who possesses a lively mind.
The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.
All knowledge begins with an expression of curiosity pertaining to the unknown or unknowable. Expressions of uncertainty and a doubtful nature lead a person to useful discoveries.
Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character.
Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.
Self-questioning – an effort to get in touch with our essential self – is an endless stream of thought.
We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience.
A person must claim the meaning behind his or her existence. How we live is our final testament to what we believed in and our journey through the corridor of time determines our decisive character.
Suffering becomes beautiful whenever a person bears great calamities with cheerfulness.
Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.
When a person understands the problem that vexes them, and comprehends the choices that created them, they begin a journey of the mind seeking personal liberation from suffering.
A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.
Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel our most fantastic nightmares.
Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments of factual reality.
There are times in life when the best part of our life and the worst part seemingly coincide, especially those periods that demark commencement of significant personal transformation.
Our life force is a form of flowing energy, a blast of verve renewed through our ongoing daily interactions and the inevitable collisions between the id and the ego.
A person’s greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.
A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.
The human mind is a rover, it constantly returns to think about times past, cogitates upon the future, and actively considers the entire range of alternative plans to meet our daily survival demands.
Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.
A person must be in tune with the light and dark forces of their nature and remain in harmony with the bands of their own multivariate being.
The road to enlightenment requires a life dedicated to self-study, accepting the minor tragedies of life as an ineluctable part of the human condition.
Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.
Self-questioning and a desire to gain self-understanding is the fêted act of humankind.
