Text of the meditation
As the fountain from the hidden spring, so a person's life issues from the secret recesses of their heart. As the heart, so is the life. The within is ceaselessly becoming the without. Nothing remains unrevealed. What is hidden is hidden only for a time; it ripens and comes forth at last.
Seed, tree, blossom and fruit are the fourfold order of the universe. From the state of a person's heart proceed the conditions of their life; their thoughts blossom into deeds, and their deeds bear the fruit of character and destiny. Life is ever unfolding from within, and revealing itself to the light, and thoughts engendered in the heart at last reveal themselves in words, actions and things accomplished.
Mind clothes itself in garments of its own making.
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.
