Text of the meditation
Come out of the storms of sin and anguish. You who would teach people of Truth: have you passed through the desert of doubt? Are you purged by the fires of sorrow? Has truth cast the fiends of opinion out of your human heart? Is your soul so fair that no false thought can ever harbour there?
You who would teach people of Love: have you passed through the place of despair? Have you wept through the dark night of grief? Does it move your human heart, now freed from its sorrow and care, to pitying gentleness, looking on wrong and hate and ceaseless stress?
You who would teach people of Peace: have you crossed the wide ocean of strife? Have you found on the shores of the Silence release from all the wild unrest of life? From your human heart, has all striving gone, leaving but Truth, and Love, and Peace alone? Enter the inward resting place.
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.
