{"author":"Jacob Nordby","author_id":"Jacob+Nordby","total_quotes":35,"quotes":[{"text":"Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.","author":"Jacob Nordby","tags":["art","creative","inspirational","poets","writers","writing-life"],"id":6108,"author_id":"Jacob+Nordby"},{"text":"The great mission of our day is not conquering the sea or space, disease or tyranny. The grand quest which calls to the hero in every one of us is to become fully alive--to stand up and claim our birthright, which is inner freedom, love and radiant purpose. By fulfilling this, we transform the world.","author":"Jacob Nordby","tags":["change-the-world","freedom","hero-s-journey","meaning","mission","purpose","purpose-in-life","quest","spirituality"],"id":22500,"author_id":"Jacob+Nordby"},{"text":"We are doing the most important possible work in the world when we open the door and reveal our creative nature. It is the work of the Universe itself.","author":"Jacob Nordby","tags":["creativity","creativity-work","true-nature","universe","writers","writing"],"id":25950,"author_id":"Jacob+Nordby"},{"text":"Your enormous soul had so many choices of who it could show up as. It chose you.","author":"Jacob Nordby","tags":["life-purpose","purpose","purpose-in-life","purpose-in-life","soul","worth","worthiness"],"id":33876,"author_id":"Jacob+Nordby"},{"text":"It's a funny thing, how it works...The moment we stop trying so hard to be someone, we become ourselves--only what was there all along, waiting and peeking out from behind all the masks we wore.And when this happens, we discover that Who We Really Are is much greater than anything we might have pretended or even hoped to be.","author":"Jacob Nordby","tags":["authentic-self","authenticity","be-yourself","be-yourself-inspirational","be-yourself"],"id":34683,"author_id":"Jacob+Nordby"},{"text":"Life loves to reveal herself to the raw, courageous doubters; to those who are willing to live inside the question.","author":"Jacob Nordby","tags":["agnosticism","agnostics","courage","doubt","doubters","life","skepticism"],"id":42103,"author_id":"Jacob+Nordby"},{"text":"To reclaim our natural power and this birthright of real magic, we must get naked and face ourselves.The truth of Who You Really Are is vast. It is genius. It crackles with electricity and sensuality and other forbidden, dangerous things. You have longed for it all your life. You catch glimpses of it from the corner of your eye. A riff of music reminds you, a surge of ecstasy during sex brings you home, a crisp Autumn wind carries some long forgotten scent which thrills you for inexplicable reasons. A thousand tiny hints show up to seduce you awake and lead you back into your true nature, but they flee when you try to grasp them and leave you wondering if you were just imagining things. You weren’t though. This quality of richness and balance and home is Who You Really Are. That is the kingdom we seek and it waits for us to find it. It wants us to regain our rightful place.","author":"Jacob Nordby","tags":["authentic-self","authenticity","birthright","genius","living-fully","purpose","purpose-in-life","purposeful-living","sensuality","soul","soul","spirituality","true-power"],"id":62041,"author_id":"Jacob+Nordby"},{"text":"Like the body craves oxygen, the mind is desperate for certainty. It believes that without a safe foothold on reality, it will die.But the fascinating thing is that the illusion of certainty is exactly the opposite of safety because it hardens and narrows the vision to make everything fit its own scope. Then when new information arrives which would be its ally, the mind pushes it away in favor of the leaky life raft to which it clings, sinking all the while beneath the waves of change.In fact, the only antidote for this is to embrace 'I don’t know' so deeply that a powerful, dynamic safety emerges. This is like learning to surf so well that a tsunami wave shows up as a challenge to test our mastery.","author":"Jacob Nordby","tags":["certainty","illusion","mastery","mastery-of-oneself","mind","mindfulness","reality","uncertainty"],"id":66698,"author_id":"Jacob+Nordby"},{"text":"Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fearis an orphaned part of usseeking joy, some disowned shadow wanting to returnto the lightand homeof ourselves.","author":"Jacob Nordby","tags":["addiction","addiction-and-recovery","fear","inspirational","joy","poetry","shadow-self","wounds","wounds-love-past-present"],"id":96592,"author_id":"Jacob+Nordby"},{"text":"When in brief flashes of serendipity you glimpse what you were born to do... Do it. No matter what. Take steps toward it, even if they are depressingly small at first. With each inch closer to your central magic, you will feel it. It is unmistakable for anything else. It's called purpose.","author":"Jacob Nordby","tags":["jacob-nordby","life-purpose","purpose","purpose-of-life"],"id":102564,"author_id":"Jacob+Nordby"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}