Text of the meditation
Where there is pure spiritual knowledge, Love is perfected and fully realised. Train your mind in strong, impartial and gentle thought; train your heart in purity and compassion; train your tongue to silence and to true and stainless speech; so you will enter the way of holiness and peace, and will ultimately realise the immortal Love.
So living, without seeking to convert, you will convince; without arguing, you will teach; not cherishing ambition, the wise will find you out; and without striving to gain people's opinions, you will subdue their hearts. For Love is all-conquering, all-powerful; and the thoughts and deeds and words of Love can never perish.
This is the realisation of selfless Love.
James Allen (1864–1912), Book of Meditations for Every Day in the Year (1913) – public-domain text, gently modernised.
The original 1913 text is in the public domain.
