Metaphysically understood, walking is thought moving from one inspired idea to another.
Fear, doubt, false belief cannot hold you back from being inspired. Your thought is free to advance with Truth, without limit.
If you’d like to go for a walk, seek spiritual inspiration to move you forward, and enjoy every step of the way.
Dear Evan thank you for this timely post. I am having some difficulty walking and do try and keep my thought spiritually focused. Your post today is a great help.
Thank you for all your daily posts which are so inspiring and uplifting, and thanks to SpiritView family for all your contributions.
Thank you, Evan, I love that thought.
We were looking after our daughter’s dog last week, as we occasionally do. But this time I had had been having a challenge and I wasn’t a sure I could do the early morning walk that I usually do.
I knew it was a loving activity and that God is always with us wherever we go and I could lean on His care.
I found I accomplished a 45 minute walk between 6 and 7 am with ease and it was joyous to be out enjoying God’s universe!
I did this every morning and often enjoyed an afternoon walk with my husband too. It is Spring in the UK and a super time to be out and about.
Thank you Evan! I love this view, the spiritual view! Mind being all, things are thoughts, people and animals are thoughts (compound ideas), action is thought. This is not that hard to grasp when we consider that in the mimicking of reality of a night dream, people, places, all action and function, and everything, are thoughts, though in this case are false thoughts. While all feels very substantial and “out there,” it’s all in mind carnal mind’s dream within the dream.). But the reverse of the lie is true. Reality is truly substantial but it’s in Mind with capital M. Spiritual substance is as tangible to spiritual sense as so-called material substance is to so-called material sense. So dear Rubi, you may find your fullness, dominion, and freedom to walk in Mind, which contains all there is, the atmosphere, our relations, the whole Universe–perpetually. You are a creature of God and as such you move in the harmony (not difficulty) of Science, and this capacity is indestructible. (See Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy pg. 514:28-30)
Lovely, inspiring thoughts AD, thank you for sharing them.
Thank you, J. It means a lot that it was inspiring.
Thank you AD for the reminder that things, which appear to material sense to be so “real,” are really thoughts. In S&H (p. 269) Mrs. Eddy said, “Metaphysics resolves things into thoughts, and exchanges the objects of sense for the ideas of Soul.”
And Evan, thank you for, “Metaphysically understood, walking is thought moving from one inspired idea to another.” To me that is very profound because my husband struggles with “knee issues” that seemingly limit his ability to walk freely and comfortably, which impacts the activities we are able and not able to do. I see that I’ve allowed a limiting, mortal sense of things invade my thought. I need to make sure I’m letting God guide my thoughts so I’m clear about my husband’s true state of Being as the freely moving expression of God.
Dear Rose, I couldn’t help but think of Hymn #308, Mrs. Eddy’s
“Feed My Sheep” poem, “I will listen for Thy voice, Lest my
footsteps stray; I will follow and rejoice All the rugged way”,
when I read what you had written. As I recall, you had once
written that your husband isn’t CS, but like you and Evan have
declared, “Metaphysically understood, walking is thought moving
from one inspired idea to another”, so your divine understanding
I am sure, will help his seeming issues. One Mind is so amazing.
Your good thoughts, with God’s Love is always there for you
both to lean on. I have learned so much from what you have to
offer here.
Thank you very much Carol for your loving, caring expressions of Truth. It means a lot to me. Lots of love to you.
Lots of love to you, too, Rose!
Dear Rose, I appreciate your sharing the citation about things and thoughts on page 269. I like pairing it with the marginal heading that reads
“Thoughts are things”, on SH page 260. Along this line of thinking, I’ve found it helpful to consider which idea any given thing stands for. So to me the idea “knee”‘ represents connection. And this being a quality of Mind with His ideas, this connection must be (therefore is) perpetually perfect. And it’s not subject to wearing out, that’s impossible! So a “knee problem” can only be a lie about the idea knee, what it represents, and ultimately, about the allness of infinite One Spirit Mind and His idea. Realizing there is only One Mind (God is the true Mind of Man, ref. SH 470:17), we can realize that there is no other mind to impose a false suggestion. Then we see Man in God’s likeness as Christ Jesus did (SH 476:32) and this, of course, corrects (aka heals) the wrong view. Love to you and your husband.
AD, many thanks to you for sharing these great healing Truths, which guide my thoughts “…into their proper channels”(S&H p.506). Following your line of reason, along with connection, “knee” can also represent strength, flexibility and support, all of which are inherent qualities from God that we can rely on and which can’t be diminished.
Yes, thank you, Rose. Nothing can be added not anything taken (neither wholly diminished) from God’s perpetually perfect Creation.
Thank you so much, AD. I love to think about thoughts – exchanging the objects of
sense for the ideas of Soul – beautiful, harmonious thoughts of God that can only manifest good.
Recently when I have my meals I think to myself, I am eating God’s thoughts – His
provision for me. That seemed quite amusing to me at first.. But thinking all day long about everything being the substance of God’s thoughts is really like a protection from the false suggestions of material beliefs that try to tempt us to believe in them. If something is not
good, it is not God’s thought, so we can refuse to take it in, and accept the true thought
from God. Lots of lovely thoughts today here – thank you to everyone,
Dear Mahie, thank you for sharing your insight about eating God’s thoughts, that’s very helpful. Yes, it sounds funny from a ltd perspective, but it’s really awakening. After all, our true and only nourishment is God’s thoughts. So what an inspired way to apply that divine truth to our most basic reflection of nourishment. And especially helpful when there’s so many mm suggestions about toxic food, lack of food, and so on. All handled by knowing God’s thought food (or food thought) is never toxic but always blessing, and never scarse but always abundantly present… What a blessing :))
Maggie, sorry for the accidental misspelling of your pretty name.
What an uplifting and timely post for me this morning Evan!
Last night , with my husband and son we were organising a holiday for next year to Stresa on the beautiful lake Maggiore in Italy. This morning I thought…how will I manage hopping on and off boats…visiting gardens and great houses in usually quite strong heat. Oh my..
but then I open SV and my answer is right there before me.
We cannot be prisoners to mortal thought or circumstance…God gives us dominion to ‘Walk with inspiration” eternally.
Thank you dear Evan .Happy ( every ) day all❣️
THank you so very much for this inspiring message this morning, Evan!
And all here in this family of Spiritual thinkers!! <3
“I walk with love along the way, / And O, it is a holy day. … The joy that none can take away / Is mine; I walk with Love today” Hymn 139
Perfect Lynne, thanks!
Dear Barbara
This weeks Lesson is full of wonderful references to walking and movement. Like Enoch we can all ‘walk with God ‘ all the day long.
You will love Maggiore – enjoy!
Dear Sue…yes, you are so right. The lesson this week is just full of precious messages for me . My highlighter has been working overtime Love to you.
I love the thought “walking is thought moving from one inspired idea to another”. I’ve never thought about it that way. Walking is thought moving forward. I will ponder this on my walk with my friend today. So appreciate SpiritView.
Just back from an early morning walk and LOVE your little one walking! Am reminded… Step by step will those who trust Him find that “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy, p. 444:10)
Thank you so much AD. Your comment is really helpful.
I’m so grateful it is, Kath!
OK, dear fathering, mothering God, divine Mind…once again You, Your truths, are meeting my (and others’) needs, with perfect timing!
This topic and the expanding, expansive ideas around it, have aided, inspired, encouraged me (and others).
Thank You!!
Your trusting servant(s)
What a sweet little girl on the photo and lovely message and
wonderful responses to walking with Love along the way! Each
step that we take to bring us closer to God is a treasure indeed.
I had been thinking … there was an occasional chore ~ more like
an obligation that I would almost dread doing, years ago, because
my heart wasn’t in it. It was in the dream of mortal mind and thus,
not real … I see now. As I am making progress in this spiritual
journey, through the lens of Spirit, God’s Love, this awakening is
now becoming more and more endearing and precious to me in
every way, because my heart Is in it very much so now.
With the “mortal” world around us becoming more unreal, with
literally orange, eerie skies, (and so many things written about in
Revelation, seeming to be happening), things are becoming clearer
and clearer, despite the haze of “matter’s” temptations to believe
in such nightmarish suggestions.
The Truth of Life’s being is step by step unfolding in it’s Reality of
Good, Peace, Harmony, Soul, Love.
Like this dear little girl, above, I am taking baby steps in understanding,
but moving forward is a real delight. I thank you all for helping me
in this journey.
Thank you for your beautiful words Carol.
Love this!!! Thank-you!!!
Thank you Evan and to all of you SV responders who share your daily “strolling thoughts”. They are always uplifting and reinforcing.
“My heart is singing I have found the way.” Those words are from one of our hymns. To be honest, my heart was not singing after I had taken two falls yesterday and then woke up this morning with doubts and fears about my ability to right my course and ‘fight the good fight’. So, this wonderful and timely SpiritView and spiritual contributors has my heart once again “singing I have found the way.” Thank you all. Much love.
Thank you Evan and everyone for your wonderful comments! A few years ago I injured my foot and it was very painful to walk. But immediately when this happened I identified it as a “aggressive mental suggestion” versus a “problem with matter”. So I continued to walk and do all of my normal activities, even though each step was painful. This injury happened one afternoon and I continued to walk all that day and all of the next day. But during the night of the second day I woke up in the middle of the night and started to question the “wisdom” of continuing to walk on an injured foot. I didn’t know what I did to the foot but the suggestion came to me “If you continue to walk on it you could do more damage to it!” That suggestion, of course, came with its companion…fear. But as I mentioned, it was also very clear to me that this “injury” was just an aggressive mental suggestion (I had recently listened to Evan’s Sentinel Watch podcast on Animal Magnetism where he made so clear that any discord is just an aggressive mental suggestion). I decided to sit quietly and listen for God’s direction and I ended up having what was like a day dream. For some reason I imagined myself in a large desert. I made two work trips to Saudi Arabia and when the plane landed there all I could see from horizon to horizon was nothing but dry sand. The airport was in the middle of a huge desert. So I imagined being somewhere like that…just sand, sand, sand, as far as I could see. Then I imagined what I would think if I was walking in this huge desert and I came across a babbling brook like you might see in a forest. It occurred to me that if I was alert I would realize that I was hallucinating, because a babbling brook has no place in a huge desert. It occurred to me the foot injury was just like that. It wasn’t real it was just like an hallucination because in truth I was the manifestation of God and since God is all-harmonious, so was I. Then I imagined myself wearing suede shoes. I have some Hush Puppies brand shoes that are suede. So I imagined myself wearing those shoes. I thought to myself, what would happen if I walked through that babbling brook in my suede shoes…well I would ruin the shoes of course because the water would damage the suede. But then I realized, even if I did damage my shoes while I was hallucinating, once I stopped hallucinating, any damage that had appeared to happen to my shoes would immediately disappear because it never REALLY happened…it was just a dream or hallucination, like someone experiences when they allow themselves to be hypnotized. I realized at that point that the dream of material existence is just like that and therefore, I didn’t need to fear continuing my normal activity because even if it appeared it made my foot injury worse, once I woke up from that lie that God would allow me to be injured, all of the side effects of that lie would also immediately disappear. At that point I went back to sleep and when I woke up the next morning I hopped out of bed and was walking around freely for about 5-10 minutes before I remembered the previous two days I had been experiencing a very painful foot. My foot was perfectly fine all of a sudden. It was so crazy to me to think one day I could be in so much pain and then it just completely disappeared. But that’s what happened. In thinking back on this I guess I realized so clearly that the foot injury was just a hypnotic mental suggestion as a result of thinking about about walking in the desert and seeing a babbling brook, that the injury, and the fear that I could do more damage by continuing my normal activities, lost all reality to me and that resulted in healing. In this week’s lesson there is the story about Jesus healing the nobleman’s son. Jesus tells the nobleman to “Go thy way…!”. I love that! We can all know we are free to “Go our way and at all times be free to act from the standpoint of our God given harmony!” Nothing can impose on that harmony because God, Truth, is perpetually maintaining it…and we can trust that and act from that basis.
RH, much appreciation to you for sharing that marvelous healing. The “daydream” you had was very interesting, to see how creatively the one Mind speaks to us in ways we can understand, when we yield to its All-Knowing.
I recently had the thought that when we seem to see things about ourselves that are clearly not expressions of the most high God, we can conclude that it’s a mistake. As they say in the legal profession, it’s a case of mistaken identity, something trying to mis-identify me as a material being in need of a material solution.
Rose, Thank you. What you had written is helpful as
sometimes a lack of communication or misinterpretation
can be difficult to understand, with the One Mind not seeming
to come to us as clearly as we would like. Then it seems mortal
mind is right there, lurking, trying to assume who we really are
and sometimes appears to be who we aren’t. Then
discouragement Seems to take over and tries to rule the day
and we have to really Know our True identity as God’s child
and not who mortal mind would like to think we are.
You have so clearly described how you overcame the five
material senses, RH. Thank you for sharing that with us!
It was almost like, I would imagine, having a parable taught
by Jesus. Awakening from the mortal dream makes everything
alright.
Matter really doesn’t matter. : )
Yes, I meant to mention that now when I’m presented with a suggestion of discord of any type I think… That’s as out of place in God’s creation as a babbling brook in a desert! That always helps to break the mesmerism of fear that might accompany the suggestion!
I would like to add my appreciation for your sharing of your testimony, RH – a great analogy.
My Wednesday reading next week is about waking up, so it is quite uppermost in my
thoughts.
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Do you read for the Reading church Maggie? I attended one Wednesday via Zoom and it was wonderful!
Dear RH, thank you for sharing that very useful analogy.
Well, yes I do. Since I finished my last three years as a Reader, we have not had any
one person willing to be permanent First Reader, so we have a few who take it in
turns. How lovely that you joined us – you are very welcome at any time. Maggie
All your thoughts have been inspiring. Thank you all. I have been struggling with walking for years now, but this has added a new dimension to how I can approach my own false beliefs.
I start today inspired to look forward to spiritual growth with each new step.
What an absolute joy it is to read all the thoughts about God and His creation and the platform that enables all of us to speak freely about who we are as His children. What a blessing and my gratitude for all of you.
It is, Lindalou! God’s creation is filled with unlimited
grace, peaceful moments, tranquil thoughts … from
the bottom of the sea, with magical treasures,
beams of light from where the birds fly heavenly,
the awe of the sun and moon and stars, being One
with the universe. How lovely!