title: Companions on the Way: A Little Book of Heart-full Practices
author:  Gunilla Norris 
description: "In<i>Companions on the Way</i>, Gunilla Norris has given us all a magnificent gift: A simple bookof wisdom so straightforward, so without jargon, and so comforting to read, that no one will want to be without it on the bedside table. Here is a lifetime of good sense. Here are beautiful sentences. And here is a book that is like Grandmother's arms: entirely reassuring, safe, full of sweetness, and a deep sense of home."<br /><b>-Stephen Cope, Senior Scholar in Residence, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, bestselling authorof<i>The Great Work of Your Life,</i>and<i>Soul Friends</i></b><br /><br />"In her new book<span>Companions on the Way,</span>Gunilla Norris's trademark voice of lyricism, wisdom, and warmth is on full display. Carry this little book of simple practices in your pocket, and you will have the perfect antidote to our complex, stressed, and often, overwhelming world. Each practice is a heartfelt invitation to pause, to take in the beauty and nourishment around you. I know of no other writer with such a clear gift for showing us that small, simple, daily practices are the most powerful tool we have in finding our way towards equanimity and liberation. I am enormously grateful to Gunilla Norris for illuminating this yet again, and, in a time when we need her words more than ever."<br /><b>-Gail Straub, Co-Founder Empowerment Institute, author<span>Returning to My Mother's House</span></b><br /><br /><span>Gunilla Norris's simple precepts for meditating and living have a translucent quality. We can all benefit greatly by observing them. --<b></b></span><i><b>Thich Nhat Hanh</b></i>
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  # The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Kathleen Norris
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I
  
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
  CHAPTER VII
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  
  CHAPTER IX
  
  
  CHAPTER X
  
  
  CHAPTER XI
  
  
  CHAPTER XII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV
  
  
  CHAPTER XV
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
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  TO KATHLEEN MARY THOMPSON
  
  
  
  
  
  Lover of books, who never fails to find
  
  
  Some good in every book, your namesake sends
  
  
  This book to you, knowing you always kind
  
  
  To small things, timid and in need of friends.
  
  
  
  
  
  O friend! I know not which way I must look
  
  
  For comfort, being, as I am, opprest,
  
  
  To think that now our life is only drest
  
  
  For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook,
  
  
  Or groom!—We must run glittering like a brook
  
  
  In the open sunshine, or we are 