I am Noura, a philosopher who writes on the topic of mindfulness. I am not aligned with any particular religion or tradition. I am an artist and my tools are words I weave into ideas. My love for writing was inspired by my love for reading and my very active imagination.
My purpose in life is to empower people to break free from the chains of their circumstances and unlock their highest potential. I am convinced that all people have within themselves all the answers they seek if they look and inquire.
I’ve always loved to write. This started with a love of reading from a young age. I was one of these children with a very active imagination, and I felt that reading was a wonderful outlet for that. I credit this love for reading to my mother because when she noticed how much I enjoyed reading, she nurtured that love by making sure that I always had wonderful books available to read.
I grew up in a French-speaking country; however, I’ve been living in the United States for so long that English now feels like my first language. At first, I started writing because I found that putting my ideas on paper helped me to think better. It wasn’t until near the end of 2015 that the ideas for my first book “Purpose – Volume I” started to form. Sometimes I’d wake up in the middle of the night with some ideas that I really wanted to write down. So I made sure to leave a notepad and a pen next to my bed before going to sleep. Sometimes I’d have a dream about a challenge I was trying to solve. I’d solve it in the dream, then wake up, and write down the solution. Most of the ideas came early in the morning. Sometimes it was a battle between making sure to get to work on time and writing down the ideas before I forgot about them. I made it a habit to have a pen and a notepad in my purse just in case.
Sometime between 2016 and 2017, I went through a lot of rapid changes. As a result, the flow of ideas didn’t come through as much during these times. Nothing was going according to my plans, so I had to learn how to live in the present and how to adapt very quickly to rapidly changing events. When things finally settled down mid-2017, I was finally able to consolidate everything and add new ideas so that my first book could finally come together. The book somehow never interfered with my life in any way. Instead, it flowed like water, molding itself around anything on its path and launching itself that way.
It was a very interesting experience writing this book because very often it felt as if it had a life of its own, and I didn’t always know what turn it was going to take next. Maybe the reason I felt so compelled to write it was because there was someone out there who needed to hear these words. If there’s at least one person who finds the book to be helpful, then its purpose would have been accomplished for whatever reason it wanted so badly to be born. As Rumi said, “What you seek is seeking you.”
