Text of the meditation
There is nothing that a strong faith and an unflinching purpose may not accomplish. There is no difficulty, however great, that will not yield before a calm and powerful concentration of thought, and no legitimate object that cannot be speedily actualised by the intelligent use and direction of one's soul-forces.
Not until you have gone deeply and searchingly into your inner nature, and have overcome the many enemies that lurk there, can you have any approximate conception of the subtle power of thought, of its inseparable relation to outward and material things, or of its magical potency, when rightly poised and directed, in readjusting and transforming the conditions of life.
Every thought you think is a force sent out, and in accordance with its nature and intensity it will go out to seek a lodging in minds receptive to it, and will react upon yourself for good or evil. Think good thoughts, and they will quickly become actualised in your outward life in the form of good conditions.
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.
