Text of the meditation
Find the Kingdom by daily effort and patient work. The Temple of Righteousness is built, and its four walls are the four Principles: Purity, Wisdom, Compassion and Love. Peace is its roof, its floor is Steadfastness, its entrance door is Selfless Duty, its atmosphere is Inspiration, and its music is the Joy of the perfect.
It cannot be shaken, and, being eternal and indestructible, there is no more need to seek protection by taking thought for the things of the morrow. And the Kingdom of Heaven being established in the heart, the obtaining of the material necessities of life is no longer a concern, for, having found the Highest, all these things are added as effect to cause, the struggle for existence has ceased, and the spiritual, mental and material needs are supplied daily from the Universal Abundance.
Pay the price: the unconditional abandonment of self.
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.
