Text of the meditation
If people only understood that the wrong act of a brother or sister should not call forth another wrong from them. If people only understood that their wrong can never smother the wrong-doing of another; that by hatred, hate increases, and by Good, all evil ceases, they would cleanse their hearts and actions, and banish all vile detractions.
If they only understood. If people only understood that the heart that sins must sorrow; that the hateful mind tomorrow reaps its barren harvest, weeping, starving, resting not, nor sleeping, tenderness would fill their being, and they would see with Pity's seeing.
If they only understood. If people only understood how Love conquers, they would ever live in Love, in hatred never. If they only understood.
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.
