Text of the meditation
Abandon error for Truth, and illusion for Reality. To sin is to dream, and to love sin is to love darkness. Those who love darkness are involved in the darkness; they have not yet seen the light. One who has seen the light does not choose to walk in darkness. To see the Truth is to love it, and, in comparison, error has no beauty.
The dreamer is now in pleasure, now in pain; this hour in confidence, the next in fear. They are without stability, and have no abiding refuge. When the monsters of remorse and retribution pursue them, where can they fly? There is no place of safety unless they awake.
Let the dreamer struggle with their dream; let them strive to realise the illusory nature of all self-seeking desire, and behold: they will open their spiritual eyes upon the world of Light and Truth. They will be happy, sane and peaceful, seeing things as they are.
Truth is the Light of the universe, the day of the mind.
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.
