Take every person that you know and without their consent represent them to yourself as being what you would like them to be, and see them actually become it. See them become it! Like my friend who went to San Francisco, Freedom, a total stranger on the street was asking for money, and he doesn’t give him money, but in his mind’s eye he sees the man gainfully employed. He refuses the money but sees him gainfully employed, and then when he is satisfied that this imaginal act is true he goes upon his way. And then, four months later that same man is coming down the street, comes up to my friend Freedom, extends his hand, and says, “I don’t suppose you remember me?” “Oh yes I do.” And then, said the man to my friend Freedom, “I want to thank you for not giving me the money that I asked you for four months ago; for had you given me that money I would today be asking for money. Because you didn’t give it to me, I went out that very day and got myself a job. I am still on that job, and I am now gainfully employed, and it has great possibilities of growth in this world.” And he thanked him for it…a total stranger. But he knew the art of forgiveness: how to actually create in himself one new man instead of this conflict. A man begging for money? No. I’ll create in myself one new man, a man who is gainfully employed.1069 ¶35