Text of the meditation
The cause of all power, as of all weakness, is within. A thorough understanding of this Great Law that permeates the universe leads to the acquirement of that state of mind known as obedience. To know that justice, harmony and love are supreme in the universe is likewise to know that all adverse and painful conditions are the result of our own disobedience to that Law.
Such knowledge leads to strength and power, and it is upon such knowledge alone that a true life and an enduring success and happiness can be built. To be patient under all circumstances, and to accept all circumstances as necessary factors in your training, is to rise superior to all painful conditions, and to overcome them with an overcoming that is sure, and that leaves no fear of their return, for by the power of obedience to law they are utterly slain.
There is no progress apart from unfoldment within.
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.
