Text of the meditation
A person can learn nothing unless they regard themselves as a learner. "How am I acting toward others?" "What am I doing for others?" "How am I thinking of others?" "Are my thoughts of, and acts toward, others prompted by unselfish love, as I would wish theirs to be toward me; or are they the outcome of personal dislike, of petty revenge, or of narrow bigotry and condemnation?" As a person, in the sacred silence of their soul, asks themselves these searching questions, applying all their thoughts and acts to the spirit of the primary precept of the Christ, their understanding will become illuminated, so that they will unerringly see where they have failed until now; and they will see what they have to do in rectifying their heart and conduct, and the way in which it is to be done.
Evil is not worth resisting. The practice of the good is supremely excellent.
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.
