Text of the meditation
The region of Reality. Unchanging principle. When a person has yielded up their lusts, their errors, their opinions and prejudices, they have entered into possession of the knowledge of God, having slain the selfish desire for heaven, and along with it the ignorant fear of hell; having relinquished even the love of life itself, they have gained supreme bliss and Life Eternal, the Life that bridges life and death, and knows its own immortality.
Having yielded up all without reservation, they have gained all, and rest in peace on the bosom of the Infinite. Only the one who has become so free from self as to be equally content to be annihilated as to live, or to live as to be annihilated, is fit to enter into the Infinite.
Only the one who, ceasing to trust their perishable self, has learned to trust in boundless measure the Great Law, the Supreme Good, is prepared to partake of undying bliss. By the surrender of self, all difficulties are overcome.
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.
