Text of the meditation
Self-seeking is self-destruction. If you would realise true prosperity, do not settle down, as many have done, into the belief that if you do right everything will go wrong. Do not allow the word competition to shake your faith in the supremacy of righteousness.
I do not care what people may say about the laws of competition, for do I not know the Unchangeable Law, which will one day put them all to rout, and which puts them to rout even now in the heart and life of the righteous? And knowing this Law, I can contemplate all dishonesty with undisturbed repose, for I know where certain destruction awaits it.
Those who have wandered from the highway of righteousness guard themselves against competition; those who always pursue the right need not trouble about such defence. Under all circumstances do what you believe to be right, and trust the Law; trust the Divine Power, and you will always be protected.
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.
