Inviting Silence by Gunilla Norris

I stumbled upon Gunilla Norris in a used book store and brought home a copy of Being Home, A Book of Meditations. Then with the help of Amazon.com I obtained other books like Inviting Silence and A Mystic Garden. Finding just one or two passages to share was challenging but I finally settled on these from Inviting Silence.

Here in each day is a wealth of time
we can take advantage of. They are breath breaks.
If we learn to rest and renew in them
our lives will go from disconnection and haste
to breathtaking presence.

To be on time we need to experience ourselves in time.
Our inner lives are timeless,
and yet our days are numbered.
To work with time we need a sense of leisure,
a sense of the natural unfolding of a day,
of a season, a year, a life.
We need also to be present to our experiences,
moment to moment. This makes for timeliness.
Then we can feel the rhythm of our lives.
Our timing becomes finer and finer.
We do not miss a beat. Leisurely and precise,
we can flow with time.