In Simple Ways acclaimed spiritual writer and teacher Gunilla Norris has distilled a lifetime of seeking and reflecting into a beautifully worded, lucid, and practical primer for prayer, meditation, and mindful living. Divided into four illuminating sections, she offers us a wide range of accessible ways towards the Holy in our daily lives: Towards the Sacred with Our Bodies; Towards the Sacred in Our Dwellings; Towards the Sacred with Our Everyday Things; and Towards the Sacred in Our Gratitude. No matter what our spiritual background, these ways are completely available to any of us, as long as we make conscious choices in our daily routines to embrace them. A profound and poetic celebration of our search for the Sacred, Simple Ways invites us to discover that the meaning of our lives can be found and experienced exactly where we are.

Gunilla Norris

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Towards the Sacred: With Our Bodies

Towards the Sacred: In Our Dwellings

Towards the Sacred: With Our Every-Day Things

Towards the Sacred: In Our Gratitude

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Norris, Gunilla

In Simple Ways acclaimed spiritual writer and teacher Gunilla Norris has distilled a lifetime of seeking and reflecting into a beautifully worded, lucid, and practical primer for prayer, meditation, and mindful living.

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Gunilla Norris is a writer, meditation teacher, and psychotherapist, and the author of a number of books on prayer and meditation. She lives in Connecticut. Her passion is to write about spirituality in the every day – she believes that we long for something more transcendent than the ordinary, and often therefore miss that which is numinous and extraordinary right under our noses. This little book offers a series of themed meditations under the headings ‘With our bodies’, ‘In our dwellings’, With our everyday things’ and ‘In our gratitude.’ Each takes the form of a two page meditation, followed by a poem for reflection. They are written in a simple, accessible, odd-moment sort of style. Often the reader is arrested by a sentence which demands further thought – as ‘with every inhalation we are given life. With every exhalation we must surrender life, for another breath to be given to us.’ The book probably won’t fill you with exciting new ideas, or lead you into radically new places – it’s more the sort of thing you take on holiday, or slow yourself down with, or follow for a season. I enjoyed it.

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