Text of the meditation
The person of aspiration sees before them the pathway up to the heavenly heights. When the rapture of aspiration touches the mind, it at once refines it, and the dross of its impurities begins to fall away; indeed, while aspiration holds the mind, no impurities can enter it, for the impure and the pure cannot occupy the thought at the same moment.
But the effort of aspiration is at first spasmodic and short-lived. The mind falls back into its habitual error and must be constantly renewed. To thirst for righteousness; to hunger for the pure life; to rise in holy rapture on the wings of angelic aspiration: this is the right road to wisdom; this is the right striving for peace; this is the right beginning of the way divine.
The lover of the pure life renews their mind daily with the invigorating glow of aspiration.
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.
