Text of the meditation
If you ceaselessly think upon what is pure and unselfish, you will surely become pure and unselfish. If you are daily praying for wisdom, for peace, for loftier purity, and a fuller realisation of Truth, and that for which you pray is still far from you, it means that you are praying for one thing while living out another in thought and act.
If you will cease from such waywardness, taking your mind off those things whose selfish clinging debars you from the possession of the stainless realities for which you pray; if you will no longer ask God to grant you what you do not deserve, or to bestow upon you the love and compassion that you refuse to bestow upon others, but will begin to think and act in the spirit of Truth, you will be growing day by day into those realities, so that ultimately you will become one with them.
Enter the path of Meditation, and 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.
