Text of the meditation
Only when you identify yourself with the Divine can you be said to be "clothed and in your right mind." The divine within is the abode of peace, the temple of wisdom, the dwelling place of immortality. Apart from this inward resting place, this Mount of Vision, there can be no true peace, no knowledge of the Divine, and if you can remain there for one minute, one hour or one day, it is possible for you to remain there always.
All your sins and sorrows, your fears and anxieties, are your own, and you can cling to them or you can give them up. Of your own accord you cling to your unrest; of your own accord you can come to abiding peace. No one else can give up sin for you; you must give it up yourself.
The greatest Teacher can do no more than walk the way of Truth for themselves, and point it out to you; you yourself must walk it for yourself. You can obtain freedom and peace only by your own efforts, by yielding up what binds the soul and is destructive of peace.
Give up all self-seeking; give up self, and behold: the Peace of God is yours.
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.
