Text of the meditation
Purification of the heart by repetitive thought on pure things. A person is a thought-being, and their life and character are determined by the thoughts in which they habitually dwell. By practice, association and habit, thoughts tend to repeat themselves with greater and greater ease and frequency, and so fix the character in a given direction by producing that automatic action which is called "habit." By daily dwelling upon pure thoughts, the person of meditation forms the habit of pure and enlightened thinking, which leads to pure and enlightened actions, and well-performed actions.
By the ceaseless repetition of pure thoughts, they at last become one with those thoughts, and are a purified being, manifesting their attainment in pure actions. Attainment of divine knowledge by embodying such purity in practical life.
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.
