Text of the meditation
To enter into a realisation of the Infinite and Eternal is to rise superior to time. To refrain from all participation in evil and discord, to cease from all resistance to evil and from the omission of that which is good, and to fall back upon unswerving obedience to the holy calm within, is to enter into the inmost heart of things, is to attain a living, conscious experience of that eternal and infinite principle which must ever remain a hidden mystery to the merely perceptive intellect.
Until this principle is realised, the soul is not established in peace, and the one who realises it is truly wise, not with the wisdom of the learned, but with the simplicity of a blameless heart and of a divine humanity. There is one Great Law that exacts unconditional obedience, one unifying principle that is the basis of all diversity, one eternal Truth in which all the problems of earth pass away like shadows.
To realise this Law, this Unity, this Truth, is to enter into the Infinite, is to become one with the Eternal.
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.
