Text of the meditation
A person is; and as they think, so they are. A person's life is actual; their thoughts are actual; their deeds are actual. To occupy ourselves with investigating things that are is the way of wisdom. A person considered as above, beyond and separate from mind and thought is speculative and not actual, and to occupy ourselves with the study of things that are not is the way of folly.
A person cannot be separated from their mind; their life cannot be separated from their thoughts. Mind, thought and life are as inseparable as light, radiance and colour. The facts are all-sufficient, and contain within themselves the groundwork of all knowledge concerning them.
To live is to think and act, and to think and act is to change.
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.
