Text of the meditation
To know Love is to know that there is no harmful power in the whole universe. If a person would know Love, and partake of its undying bliss, they must practise it in their heart; they must become Love. One who always acts from the spirit of Love is never deserted, is never left in a dilemma or difficulty, for Love, impersonal Love, is both Knowledge and Power.
One who has learned how to Love has learned how to master every difficulty, how to transmute every failure into success, how to clothe every event and condition in garments of blessedness and beauty. The way to Love is by self-mastery, and, travelling that way, a person builds themselves up in Knowledge as they proceed.
Arriving at Love, they enter into full possession of body and mind, by right of the divine Power they have earned. "Perfect Love casteth out fear." Perfect Love is perfect Harmlessness. And whoever has destroyed in themselves all thoughts of harm, and all desire to harm, receives the universal protection.
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.
