11 Quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster about personal-experience
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
-
Quote
Our genetic map makes us human. Our physical and emotional genomes establish the baseline for us to operate. When we strike out in the world, we seek out vivid encounters with other people and nature that speak loudest to ourselves. What we make of our brilliant experiences modulates who we become. The way we think, feel, and express emotions enables us to personalize our experiences.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
-
Quote
We live in a world of shadow and light, pain and joy. We spend our entire lives investigating the many possible patterns of human experience including interactions between humankind and nature and with one another. We must learn from our chronicles and assist future generations by living a fully engaged life attempting to ascertain how to live in an authentic and joyous manner.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
-
Quote
The defining background experiences of our childhood affect our vital adulthood decisions and method of apprehending the world.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
-
Quote
A person can learn beneficial information from books, but they can only acquire wisdom from living a fully engaged life.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
-
Quote
All of our thoughts – ideas – are traceable to a sensation, an encounter with the world that leaves an impression upon the mind.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
-
Quote
What we depend upon for happiness and a sense of fulfillment is reflective of our self-giving character forged through a variety of evocative experiences.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
-
Quote
We employ education and the convictions gained through the intermeshing of personal experiences and fresh ideas to establish the configuration of our being that in actuality was our mysterious potentiality from the very inception of our birth.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
-
Quote
Life includes unforeseen incidents that prove critical to promote personal growth. Life rarely gives us what we want. We are lucky if life gives us what we need in order to fulfill the path that was in place at our birthing.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
-
Quote
Does a person employ their cache of personal experiences to guide how they live or do they plot their life course based exclusively upon their ideas? How does a person associate personal experiences with ideas? Can a personal experience ever portray the profundity of an idea? Does an idea express what sentiment we can never equate to an actual personal experience; is an idea by its very nature characterized precisely by the fact that no sensation of experience is ever fully congruous to it?
- Tags
- Share