Text of the meditation
The universe is preserved because Love is at the Heart of it. The Children of Light who abide in the Kingdom of Heaven see the universe, and all that it contains, as the manifestation of one Law: the Law of Love. They see Love as the moulding, sustaining, protecting and perfecting Power immanent in all things, animate and inanimate.
To them Love is not merely and only a rule of life; it is the Law of life; it is Life itself. Knowing this, they order their whole life in accordance with Love, not regarding their own personality. By thus practising obedience to the Highest, to divine Love, they become conscious partakers of the power of Love, and so arrive at perfect Freedom as Masters of Destiny.
Love is Perfect Harmony, pure bliss, and contains, therefore, no element of suffering. Let a person think no thought and do no act that is not in accordance with pure Love, and suffering will no longer trouble them. Love is the only preserving 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.
