Text of the meditation
When Perfect Good is realised and known, then calm vision is acquired. The transcendent life is ruled not by passions but by principles. It is founded not upon fleeting impulses but upon abiding laws. In its clear atmosphere, the orderly sequence of all things is revealed, so that there is seen to be no more room for sorrow, anxiety or regret.
While people are involved in the passions of self, they load themselves with cares, and trouble over many things; and more than all else they trouble over their own little, burdened, pain-stricken personality, being anxious for its fleeting pleasures, for its protection and preservation, and for its eternal safety and continuance.
Now in the life that is wise and good, all this is transcended. Personal interests are replaced by universal purposes, and all cares, troubles and anxieties concerning the pleasure and fate of the personality are dispelled like the feverish dreams of a night. Universal Good is seen.
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.
