Text of the meditation
Take comfort! You will reach the heights of Blessed Vision. Eolaus: I know that sorrow follows passion; I know that grief and emptiness and heartaches wait upon all earthly joys; so I am sad. Yet Truth must be, and being, can be found; and though I am in sorrow, this I know: I shall be glad when I have found the Truth.
Prophet: There is no gladness like the joy of Truth. The pure in heart swim in a sea of bliss that evermore knows neither sorrow nor pain; for who can see the Cosmos and be sad? To know is to be happy; they rejoice who have attained Perfection; these are they who live, and know, and realise the Truth.
They find Truth who find self-control.
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.
