Text of the meditation
Meditation will enrich the soul with saving remembrance in the hour of strife, of sorrow or of temptation. As, by the power of meditation, you grow in wisdom, you will relinquish more and more your selfish desires, which are fickle, impermanent, and productive of sorrow and pain; and will take your stand, with increasing steadfastness and trust, upon unchangeable principles, and will realise heavenly rest.
The use of meditation is the acquirement of a knowledge of eternal principles, and the power that results from meditation is the ability to rest upon and trust those principles, and so become one with the Eternal. The end of meditation is, therefore, direct knowledge of Truth, of God, and the realisation of divine and profound peace.
Strive to rise, by the power of meditation, above all selfish clinging to partial gods or party creeds; above dead formalities and lifeless ignorance. Remember that you are to grow into Truth by steady perseverance.
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.
