Text of the meditation
Whoever clings to their delusions, loving self and sin, cannot find the Truth. Truth brings joy out of sorrow, and peace out of perturbation; it points the selfish to the Way of Good, and sinners to the Path of Holiness. Its spirit is the doing of Righteousness.
To the earnest and faithful it brings consolation; upon the obedient it bestows the crown of peace. I take refuge in Truth: yes, in the Spirit of Good, in the knowledge of Good, and in the doing of Good I abide. And I am reassured and comforted. It is to me as though malice were not, and hatred had vanished away.
Lust is confined to the nethermost darkness; it has no way into Truth's transcendent Light. Pride is broken up and dissolved, and vanity is melted away like a mist. I have set my face toward the Perfect Good, and my feet in the Blameless Way; and because of this I am consoled.
I am strengthened and comforted, having found refuge in Truth.
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.
