learning from our struggles

Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life’s aromatic flower garden of pleasures and encounters life’s warship of armor-plated rigors, they blend and bend to make reasonable accommodations for surviving. Scripted and unscripted encounters with superior militant forces bruise us mightily and eventually cut us to the core. Every person’s life contains a minefield of obstacles that function as potential barriers to achieving our ultimate manifestation. The expended labor of continuously hefting oneself over one contentious hurdle after another is what leads a conscientious person onto the path of needing to write in order to create emotional poultices to ameliorate painful wounds.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

I am thankful to the Lord for my redemption. I was once lost, now I am saved by grace.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

It doesn’t matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better past today is what matters.

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Learn well and play well.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Personal experiences that disrupt stale routines result in the phenomena of cognitive dissidence, jolting our minds and enhancing our ability to internalizing new information.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by encountering the world, culling knowledge from all available resources, and thinking reverently about life.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Using reason without applying it to experience only leads to theoretical illusions. Ideas derived from real world experiences lead to acquisition of knowledge, and the accumulation of time-tested principles leads to wisdom.

— Kilroy J. Oldster

We are born with the innate capacity to express empathy. Experiencing our own cuts and bruises, encountering our own difficulties and disappointments, expands our cognitive world and rouses the universal desire to understand and comfort other people in pain.

— Kilroy J. Oldster