Text of the meditation
Enter into perfect harmony with the Eternal Law, which is Wisdom, Love and Peace. This divine state is, and must ever be, incomprehensible to the merely personal. Personality, separateness and selfishness are one and the same, and are the antithesis of wisdom and divinity.
By the unqualified surrender of the personality, separateness and selfishness cease, and a person enters into possession of their divine heritage of immortality and infinity. Such surrender of the personality is regarded by the worldly and selfish mind as the most grievous of all calamities, the most irreparable loss, yet it is the one supreme and incomparable blessing, the only real and lasting gain.
The mind unenlightened upon the inner laws of being, and upon the nature and destiny of its own life, clings to transient appearances, things that have in them no enduring substantiality, and so clinging, perishes, for the time being, amid the shattered wreckage of its own illusions.
Love is universal, supreme, all-sufficing. This is the realisation of selfless 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.
