Text of the meditation
Let a person abandon self, let them overcome the world, let them deny the personal; by this pathway only can they enter into the heart of the Infinite. "Goodwill gives insight," and only the one who has so conquered their personality that they have but one attitude of mind, that of goodwill, is possessed of divine insight, and is capable of distinguishing the true from the false.
The supremely good person is, therefore, the wise person, the divine person, the enlightened seer, the knower of the Eternal. Where you find unbroken gentleness, enduring patience, sublime lowliness, graciousness of speech, self-control, self-forgetfulness, and deep and abounding sympathy, look there for the highest wisdom, seek the company of such a one, for they have realised the Divine, they live with the Eternal, they have become one with the Infinite.
Those who are spiritually awakened alone have comprehended the Universal Reality, where all appearances are dispersed and dreaming and delusion are destroyed. To centre one's life in the Great Law of Love is to enter into rest, harmony and peace.
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.
