{"quotes":[{"text":"It's easier said than done but when you feel yourself out of balance within, stop in that present moment and catch your breathe. Remind yourself of 5 things, that help you feel most alive and re-centre your own energy frequency so you can continue living out of your intentions not the world's distractions.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["awareness","blessed","breath","breathe","chakra","compassion","energy","energy-healing","grateful","guidance","heart-centre","honesty","hope","lightworkers","meditation","nikki-rowe","self-awakening","self-awareness","self-compassion","self-help","soul","spiritual","spiritual-soul","writer"],"id":28947,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"With every passing day, we add a page to our personal story, an illustrative script that casts our character shaped by an implacable external environment and fashioned by our supple state of inwardness.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["character","character-building","character-description","character-development","character","identity","identity","life-story","memoir-writing","personal-awareness","self-awakening","self-awakening","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-discovery","self-discovery","self-realization","self-realization","story-of-my-life"],"id":82802,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"With every passing day, we add a page to our personal story, an illustrative script that casts our character shaped by an implacable external environment and fashioned by our supple state of inwardness.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["character","character-building","character-description","character-development","character","identity","identity","life-story","memoir-writing","personal-awareness","self-awakening","self-awakening","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-discovery","self-discovery","self-realization","self-realization","story-of-my-life"],"id":82802,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Deep down there is a rose in every heart.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["awakening","awakening-mind","enlightenment","rose","rose-in-every-heart","self-awakening","self-awareness","self-improvement"],"id":92378,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind to explore paradoxes and discover previously unrealized personal truths. Writing is as arduous as any trek into the wilderness. Every sentence takes a writer deeper into the jungle of the mind, a world of frightening inconsistencies created by our waking life’s desire that the world of chaos conform to our convenience.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["autobiography","chaos","essay","essay-writing","essayist","essays","journey-of-self-discovery","journey-of-the-mind","know-thyself","memoir","memoir-writing","memoirs","personal-essay","personal-essays","self-actualization","self-awakening","self-aware","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-discovery","self-discovery","self-knowing","self-knowledge","self-knowledge","sentence","sentences","writers","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers-on-writing-books","writers-on-writing-life","writing","writing-memoir"],"id":118514,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"There exists a universal order that we each play a distinct role in carrying out. Light always struggles to emerge from darkness. Each of us is the bearer of our own lantern. We find ourselves when we realize our place in an interconnected world. The struggle to pierce the darkness that shrouds us from realizing a state of perceptive awareness is the biggest part of both our individual story and our communal storyline.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["awareness","consciousness","enlightenment","enlightenment-principles","enlightenment","interconnected","interconnectedness","personal-story","personal-struggle","self-awakening","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-discovery","self-discovery","self-examination","self-realization","self-realization","universal-love","universal-truths"],"id":277690,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"There is a rose in every heart. Enlightenment is recognizing that rose.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["awakening","awakening-mind","enlightenment","rose","rose-in-every-heart","self-awakening","self-awareness","self-improvement"],"id":281972,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"A fine line exists between quitting on ourselves and letting go of a restrictive position in life and moving forward to reach our ultimate destination based upon our natal predisposition honed by a lifetime of experimentation. Who has not been forced to stop and ask ourselves, ‘who are we,’ ‘what are we doing,’ and ‘where are we going?’ Who has not been forced to pause by life’s dynamic forces and ask ourselves, ‘what mystical chords bind us as a species; what is the meaning of life; and how do we give birth to our genetic blueprint while shaping a sense of purposefulness out of our own existence and striving to bring joy to other people’s hearth?’ To answer these life affirming questions that gnaw most voraciously at our consciousness at the time when tension and unsettling trauma besieges us, we must appreciate our heritage, be mindful our epoch, accept responsibility for our adult decisions, and strive to accumulate wisdom that segues our entrance into the future. Each of us must arrive at a unifying philosophy that guides our living quest, and the sooner we come to terms with our eccentric self the quicker we will perceive and appreciate the ineffable beauty of nature.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["know-thyself","philosophy-of-life","self-acceptance","self-acceptance","self-accountability","self-awakening","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-knowledge","self-knowledge"],"id":284512,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming to know oneself. Without society to rebel against and to sail away from, there would be no advances in civilization; there would be no need for healers and mystics, priests and artist, or shaman and writers. It is our curiosity and refusal to be satisfied with the status quo that compels us to challenge ourselves to learn and continue to grow. We only establish inner peace of mind with acceptance of the world, with the recognition of our connection to the entirety of the universe, and understanding that chaos and change are inevitable. We must also love because without love there are no acts of creation. Without love, humankind is a spasmodic pool of brutality and suffering. Love is a balm. It cures human aches and pains; it unites couples, families, and cultures. Love is a creative force, without love there is no art or religion. Art expresses thought and feelings, an articulation of adore and reverence.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["adoration","adore","art","awarness","creative-work","creativity","curiosity","knowing-oneself","knowledge-of-self","love","love-and-sayings","personal-growth","personal-growth","reverence","self-awakening","self-aware","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-determination","self-development","self-realization","self-understanding","shaman","shamanism","writers"],"id":285561,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Nowadays, the concept of love is greatly trampled because there is too much permissibility.","author":"Efrat Cybulkiewicz","tags":["self-awakening","self-awareness","self-esteem","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","self-motivation","self-realization","self-worthiness","spiritual-awakening","spiritual-awareness","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality"],"id":327118,"author_id":"Efrat+Cybulkiewicz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}