Text of the meditation
Glorious, radiant, free, detached from the tyranny of self! The journey to the Kingdom may be a long and tedious one, or it may be short and rapid. It may take a minute, or it may take a thousand ages. Everything depends on the faith and belief of the searcher.
The majority cannot "enter in because of their unbelief"; for how can people realise righteousness when they do not believe in it, nor in the possibility of its accomplishment? Neither is it necessary to leave the outer world, and one's duties in it. No, it can be found only through the unselfish performance of one's duty.
But all who believe, and aspire to achieve, will sooner or later arrive at victory, if, amid all their worldly duties, they do not faint or lose sight of the Ideal Goodness, and continue, with unshaken resolve, to press on to Perfection. The outward life harmonises itself with the inward music.
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.
