Text of the meditation
Speak only words that are truthful and sincere. The storm may rage outside, but it cannot affect us if there is peace within. As by the fireside there is security from the fiercest storm, so the heart that is steadfast in the knowledge of Truth abides in peace, though all around is strife and perturbation.
The bitter opposition of others and the unrest of the world cannot make us bitter and restless unless we enter into it and cooperate with it. Rather, if we have peace in our heart, the outer turmoil will cause our peace to deepen, to take firmer root, and to show forth more abundantly in works of peace, for the softening of human hearts and the enlightening of human minds.
Blessed is the one who has no wrongs to remember, no injuries to forget, in whose pure heart no hateful thought about another can take root and flourish. Whoever speaks evil of another cannot find the way of peace.
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.
