Text of the meditation
Everything that happens is just. As you think, you travel; as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. You cannot escape the results of your thoughts, but you can endure and learn, accept and be glad.
You will always come to the place where your love, your most abiding and intense thought, can receive its measure of gratification. If your love is base, you will come to a base place; if it is beautiful, you will come to a beautiful place. You can alter your thoughts, and so alter your condition.
You are powerful, not powerless. Nothing is fated; everything is formed.
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.