Text of the meditation
The wise purify their thoughts. Every day is a new birth in time, holding out new beginnings, new possibilities, new achievements. The ages have witnessed the stars in their orbits, but no age has witnessed this day. It is a new appearance, a new reality. It heralds a new life; indeed, a new order, a new society, a new age.
It holds out new hopes, new opportunities, to all. In it you can become a new person. For you it can be the day of regeneration, renewal, rebirth. From the old past with its mistakes, failures and sorrows, you can rise a new being, endowed with power and purpose, and radiant with the inspiration of a new ideal.
Be chaste in mind and body. Abandon sensual pleasures. Purge the mind of selfishness, and live a life of exalted purity. Be upright, gentle and pure-hearted.
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.
