Text of the meditation
Reach out into a comprehension of the Infinite. While vainly imagining that the pleasures of earth are real and satisfying, pain and sorrow continually remind a person of their unreal and unsatisfying nature. Ever striving to believe that complete satisfaction is to be found in material things, they are conscious of an inward and persistent revolt against this belief, which revolt is at once a refutation of their essential mortality, and an inherent and imperishable proof that only in the immortal, the eternal, the infinite, can they find abiding satisfaction and unbroken peace.
A human being is essentially and spiritually divine and eternal, and, immersed in mortality and troubled unrest, they are striving to enter into a consciousness of their real nature. The common ground of faith, the root and spring of all religion: the heart of Love!
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.
