Norris’ central idea is that mystery is the core of being. It is in us and around us. Given a chance, something deep inside will show up as longing, something that can’t be explained but needs expression. This is what she begins to call “soul singing.”
Here are words written out of silence that do not destroy the silence, but invite us to embrace it and find our own way in and through to the source. Here is a book that offers us the solace of simplicity found on the other side of complexity. May it bless you as it has blessed me.
Soul Songs awakens to the sacredness that suffuses everyday life. The collection is a flow through the heart-wisdom -each song calls forth a previous and often hidden part of our being.
Discerning with the Heart, Praying for Guidance and Vision
We are making decisions all the time, big ones and little ones. Choice by choice our lives unfold and reveal our hopes, desires, fears and goals. Though we generally don’t think about it in the thick of daily living, making choices is a discerning process. Using information, reasoning, necessity and opportunity we do what we can and are using our minds to the full. But it is when our minds support our hearts that we live more intentionally. The essays in this book are nudges to invite the leanings of the heart to be central to making conscious and faithful choices and so help us to live our deepest values.
Old and Singing
Gunilla Norris is now at the height of her powers as a poet. The poems in this new collection are sublime–one after another and another. Reading them, I can hardly catch my breath . . . Ms. Norris observes life so closely and opens ordinary moments into what I can only call the divine realms.
Stephen Cope, Scholar Emeritus, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health Best-selling author of The Great Work of Your Life, and Soul Friends.
Hints for the Heart
How we see, touch, hear, and ingest matters. It is a sacred path to dedicate and revere our senses as well as our capacity to stand, walk and talk, work, play, rest, and love. It is not only sensual but it is also embodied and profound. Perhaps use of our capacities in this manner will be an evolutionary key. Becoming love-consciousness may be the agency that will be central to the survival of our species and to the care of our planet home.
Timeless wisdom, poetic and true, to return to again and again as you journey on the path. Hints for the Heart is a beautiful invitation to enter the flow of our lives and discover the boundless mystery of who we really are.
—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance
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