Text of the meditation
Those who shape their conduct to the Divine precepts are the doers of the Father's will. To us and to all, there is no sufficiency, no blessedness, no peace to be derived from the goodness of another, not even the goodness of God; not until the goodness is done by us, not until it is, by constant effort, incorporated into our being, can we know and possess its blessedness and peace.
Therefore, you who adore Jesus for His divine qualities, practise those qualities yourself, and you too will be divine. The teaching of Jesus brings people back to the simple truth that righteousness, or right-doing, is entirely a matter of individual conduct, and not a mystical something apart from a person's thoughts and actions, and that each must be righteous for themselves; each must be a doer of the word, and it is a person's own doing that brings them peace and gladness of heart, not the doing of another.
It is only the doer of forgiveness who tastes the sweets of forgiveness.
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.
