Jacob Nordby Quotes

#1. Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls;
Conscience is but a work that cowards use,
Devised at first to keep the strong in awe:
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!

William Shakespeare

#2. There are times on Earth when extraordinary consciousness invades everyday life. There are times on Earth when unseen forces make a calamity of the status quo. There are times on Earth when it seems as though a divine arsonist has set fire to the world as we know it.
- We live in such times.

Jacob Nordby

#3. We are, all of us, always only one breath or softening of our thought away from an invasion of divine wonder and fresh miracles. Soul waits for any small opening of our hearts to steal into everyday life.

Jacob Nordby

#4. The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.

Irvine Welsh

#5. Too many people confuse real magic with magical thinking. Real magic isn't a trick and it transforms our lives. Magical thinking is denial.
Real magic is what happens when we break old belief patterns and have the courage to employ the native laws of the Universe

Jacob Nordby

#6. Last 200 years no Muslim country attacked a western country. But tens of wars against Muslim countries were conducted by western countries.

Jurgen Todenhofer

#7. With poetry and writing, the question isn't "do you know the right words?".
The real question is, "can you make words from the unwordable, chisel blocks of raw silence into shapes and touch our souls?

Jacob Nordby

#8. Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

James Thurber

#9. We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.

Jacob Nordby

#10. Dare to dream again.
For dreaming is the language of your soul,
And nothing your soul truly desires could ever be wrong or impossible.

Jacob Nordby

#11. I have come to differentiate not at all between what is spiritual and the rest of life. There is only Life, all of it is good and the more I am aware of this in every moment, the more my spirit comes alive.

Jacob Nordby

#12. When you no longer need approval from others like the air you breathe, the possibilities in life are endless.
What an interesting little prison we build from the
invisible bricks of other people's opinions.

Jacob Nordby

#13. Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear
is an orphaned part of us
seeking joy,
some disowned shadow
wanting to return
to the light
and home
of ourselves.

Jacob Nordby

#14. Sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.

Richard Powers

#15. Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns: they don't admit that. I can't say I feel particularly scarred or lessened by my experimentation with drugs. They've gotten a very bad name.

Anjelica Huston

#16. Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

Henrik Ibsen

#17. You have left a trail of breadcrumb clues which will lead you to the place where your purpose and passion have already met and are simply waiting for you to find them.

Jacob Nordby

#18. Writer's block is just another name for fear.

Jacob Nordby

#19. Life loves to reveal herself to the raw, courageous doubters; to those who are willing to live inside the question.

Jacob Nordby

#20. Your enormous soul had so many choices of who it could show up as.
It chose you.

Jacob Nordby

#21. When we find a fossil, we mark it. Today, we've got great technology: we have GPS. We mark it with a GPS fix, and we also take a digital photograph of the specimen, so we could essentially put it back on the surface, exactly where we found it.

Louise Leakey

#22. Debt is the slavery of the free

Publilius Syrus

#23. Living is art.
Breathing and heart beating is music.
Seeing is painting the world with our eyes.
Touching is sculpting the shape of everything.
Life is the most intense art of all.

Jacob Nordby

#24. I don't analyze beautiful. I sit in its presence and love the wholeness of it--the sweet and sad and raw and bright together.
Poetry is that, the weaving of light-shadow. Making words from the unwordable.

Jacob Nordby

#25. In the long run we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#26. 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.

Jacob Nordby

#27. Find your purpose, find your passion. Find your passion, find your purpose. Turn either way, it doesn't matter. Because how do you separate conjoined twins like these?

Jacob Nordby

#28. She was a Jew feeder without a question in the world on that man's first night in Molching. She was an arm reacher, deep into a mattress, to deliver a sketchbook to a teenage girl. (84.25)

Markus Zusak