Grace, poise, control, dominion, beauty, love, trust…the feats will amaze you.
Evidently, it took this husband and wife eight year to perfect the routine.
On page 199, in Science and Health, Eddy wrote about the mental requirements necessary for such flexibility as evidenced in this short video.
“The feats of the gymnast prove that latent mental fears are subdued by him.
“Had Blondin believed it impossible to walk the rope over Niagara's abyss of waters, he could never have done it. His belief that he could do it gave his thought-forces, called muscles, their flexibility and power which the unscientific might attribute to a lubricating oil. His fear must have disappeared before his power of putting resolve into action could
appear.” Mary Baker Eddy
2 comments:
Thanks for sharing this! my daughter is an aspiring ballerina and it enthralled her. The passage you quoted in S&H will have deeper meaning to her after this!
The only thing I can think of when I see the word China or Chinese, is the terrible earthquake and disaster it brought. So many people died in the rubble, as schools collapsed. It's times like this that I wonder where God is, and why these things happen in the world. How can you console a grieving nation with words of comfort? How can we tell them there is no death?
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