Text of the meditation
If you really seek Truth, you will be willing to make the effort necessary to achieve it. At the outset, meditation must be distinguished from idle reverie. There is nothing dreamy and unpractical about it. It is a process of searching and uncompromising thought that allows nothing to remain but the simple and naked truth.
Thus meditating, you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth. And so you will remove, one by one, the errors you have built around yourself in the past, and will patiently wait for the revelation of Truth that will come when your errors have been sufficiently removed.
Let the supreme object of your meditation be 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.
