You pray for your bodily eye, and this is not wrong, yet why do you not pray with greater fervor for the eye of your soul? The physician examines your physical sight, but what physician examines the understanding within you? For just as the eye is the light of the body, so the mind is the light of the soul. If that inward eye be single and clear, your whole life shall be full of light; but if it be darkened by envy, covetousness, or the love of passing things, how great is that darkness. You ask the Lord to touch the doctor's hand, which is a small thing. Ask rather that He touch your heart, that you may see clearly those things that endure. What will it profit you if your bodily vision be perfect, yet your soul be blind to righteousness? The rich man may have keen eyes to behold his wealth, but if he knows not how to use it for the poor, he is blind indeed. Seek therefore first the health of that eye which looks upon heavenly things. For when that eye is sound, whether the earthly eye sees well or poorly, you will possess a calm and unshakeable light within.