THE  FLORENCE LETTER

  THIRTY YEARS AGO A DOCTOR FRIEND GAVE THIS LETTER TO ME. HE SAID IT WAS GIVEN
  TO HIM IN 1956 AND WAS HIS PATH IN LIFE.  THE AUTHOR IS UNKNOWN--THE LETTER WAS
  WRITTEN IN FLORENCE ITALY.  "THIS IS NOT EASY", HE SAID,  "BUT IT WORKS.IT IS NOT
  DENIAL , BUT TRUTH --AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW EACH MOMENT WHAT IS WRITTEN HERE,
  WILL, WITH NO DOUBT WHATEVER, REACH THE INTENDED GOAL."

  ":........I WANT TO WRITE  YOU ABOUT MY EYES. I WAS BLIND:  NOW I SEE. IT HAS BEEN A
  GREAT THING TO GET AWAY FROM NEW YORK. AWAY FROM MYSELF. I HAVE LEARNED TO
  DEMONSTRATE; I HAVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE SCIENCE A THING OF LIFE.  NOT OF
  WORDS------AND I AM GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT THE WONDERFUL SECRET IS, FOR IT IS
  WONDERFUL.

  IT IS THIS: NOT TO SEE NOR HEAR NOR REPEAT ANY KIND OF IMPERFECTION. HENCE
  FORTH IT IS SEEING, HEARING AN REPEATING GOOD . AND GOOD ONLY. GOOD AT  ALL
  TIMES, UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES----IN SPITE OF EVERYTHING THAT APPEARS TO THE
  CONTRARY.

  I MAKE THAT RESOLUTION EVERY MORNING WHEN I FIST OPEN MY EYES AND I REVIEW IT
  EVERY HOUR OF THE DAY.  I SEE PERFECTION. I SEE PERFECT CAUSE,AND PERFECT
  EFFECT.  PERFECT GOD. I REFUSE  TO MAKE ANY EXCEPTION OF ANY KIND. I REFUSE  THE
  SLIGHTEST IMPERFECTION IN MYSELF, IN MY FRIENDS, IN MY AFFAIRS, IN MY SO-CALLED
  ENEMIES AND IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE WORLD.

  I TAKE THIS RADICAL STAND AS A WAY OF LOOKING THROUGH GODS EYES. I REFUSE TO
  SEE IN ANY OTHER WAY.

  I STOP A DOZEN TIMES A DAY TO RENEW THIS RESOLVE AND TO MAKE SURE THAT I AM
  NOT REPEATING ERROR, GIVING WAY TO FEAR, NOR TO CRITICISM. I WATCH MY EVERY
  THOUGHT ABOUT PEOPLE, THE LAME,  THE OLD, THE LESS THAN LOVELY, STRAY ANIMALS
  --WHATEVER I PASS. BY. I TAKE MY RADICAL STAND FOR THE PERFECTION OF BEING IN
  ALL THINGS  AND I WILL NOT, ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT RELEASE THE PERFECT STANDARD.

  THE RESULT IS SIMPLY MARVELOUS, SLOW--BUT MARVELOUS. I AM WORKING AGAIN. NOT
  THE WAY I USED TO WORK, BUT WORKING. NO MORE DO I NEED GLASSES. THEY ARE
  UNNECESSARY. YOU WILL IF YOU DO THIS,  SEE WITH GOD'S EYES AND YOU WILL BEHOLD
  PERFECTION.

  OUTWARD CONDITIONS ARE  PICTURES OF OUR INWARD THINKING. TO CHANGE THE
  PICTURES, ONE MUST CHANGE THE THOUGHTS THAT PRODUCE THE PICTURES."