Text of the meditation
Strong people have strong purposes, and strong purposes lead to strong achievements. Invincibility is a glorious protector, but it envelops only the person whose integrity is perfectly pure and unassailable. Never to violate integrity, even in the most insignificant particular, is to be invincible against all the assaults of innuendo, slander and misrepresentation.
The person who has failed in one point is vulnerable, and the shaft of evil, like the arrow in the heel of Achilles, will lay them low. Pure and perfect integrity is proof against all attack and injury, enabling its possessor to meet all opposition and persecution with dauntless courage and sublime equanimity.
No amount of talent, intellect or business acumen can give a person that power of mind and peace of heart which come from an enlightened acceptance and observance of lofty moral principles. Moral force is the greatest power.
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.
