Text of the meditation
The lovers of Truth worship Truth with the sacrifice of self. Do you seek to know and to realise Truth? Then you must be prepared to sacrifice, to renounce to the uttermost, for Truth in all its glory can be perceived and known only when the last vestige of self has disappeared.
The eternal Christ declared that whoever would be His disciple must "deny themselves daily." Are you willing to deny yourself, to give up your lusts, your prejudices, your opinions? If so, you may enter the narrow way of Truth, and find that peace from which the world is shut out.
The absolute denial, the utter extinction of self, is the perfect state of Truth, and all religions and philosophies are but so many aids to this supreme attainment. As you let self die, you will be reborn in Truth.
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.
