Text of the meditation
Practise heart-virtue, and search humbly and diligently for the Truth. Truth will never be proved by wordy arguments and learned treatises, for if people do not perceive the Truth in infinite patience, undying forgiveness and all-embracing compassion, no words can ever prove it to them.
It is an easy matter for the passionate to be calm and patient when they are in the midst of calmness, or when they are alone. It is equally easy for the uncharitable to be gentle and kind when they are dealt with kindly, but the one who keeps their patience and calmness under all trial, who remains sublimely meek and gentle under the most trying circumstances, they, and they alone, are possessed of the spotless Truth.
And this is so because such lofty virtues belong to the Divine, and can be manifested only by one who has attained the highest wisdom, who has relinquished their passionate and self-seeking nature, who has realised the supreme and unchangeable Law, and has brought themselves into harmony with it.
There is one great all-embracing Law that is the foundation of the universe: the Law of Love.
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.
