Text of the meditation
Learn the lessons of Virtue, and thus build up in the strength of knowledge, destroying ignorance and the ills of life. Where Love is, God is, and where Goodness lives, there Christ abides; and whoever strives daily against self and selfishness, shaping their mind for Truth and Purity, will surely find the Master's presence in their inmost heart.
God will be one with those who overcome themselves and make their life Godlike and holy; who banish all strife far from them; who let hate and anger die, and greed and pride and fleshly lusts that lie to God and Goodness. Great will be their peace, happy and everlasting their release from pain and sorrow, who conquer sin.
To the pure heart God comes and dwells therein: only those who have trodden the Path of Good have found the Life that is "hid with Christ in God." "Make pure your heart, and you will make your life rich, sweet and beautiful, unmarred by strife."
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.
