Gunilla Norris – författare

Is there anything more needed in our world today than kindness? In this little gem of a book, best-selling author and spiritual guide, Gunilla Norris helps us learn to cultivate kindness in all aspects of our daily lives - upon waking to the sunshine, through our work and daily bread, when offering a safe space to a friend. Great Love in Little Ways is a book to savor and read over again as it broadens our awareness of God''s kind and loving presence in today''s sometimes harsh and chaotic world. 

Gunilla Norris is a mother and a grandmother. She has been a psychotherapist in private practice for more than 40 years and has felt privileged of accompanying many people on their journeys to growth and healing. Her special love has been teaching meditation and leading contemplative workshops of many kinds.

“Between God and the soul, there is no in-between,” said Julian of Norwich, a 14th-century mystic, and that idea frames the poems in this collection.

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.”

A well-known writer and poet now in her eighties, Gunilla Norris offers this collection of short prayers, tender moments of awareness, even humming, that express her yearning for and experience of connecting with the Source of all. Norris’ expressions have a universal feel, and speak across a spectrum of traditions. Above all, Soul Songs shows how sometimes we simply can’t help but lift our hearts and sing for the soul’s sake.