Text of the meditation
A person whose thoughts, words and acts are sincere is surrounded by sincere friends; an insincere person is surrounded by insincere friends. Every fact and process in Nature contains a moral lesson for the wise. There is no law in the world that is not found operating with the same mathematical certainty in the human mind and in human life.
All the parables of Jesus illustrate this truth, and are drawn from the simple facts of Nature. There is a process of seed-sowing in the mind and in life, a spiritual sowing that leads to a harvest according to the kind of seed sown. Thoughts, words and acts are seeds sown, and, by the inviolable law of things, they produce after their kind.
A person who thinks hateful thoughts brings hatred upon themselves. A person who thinks loving thoughts is loved. When you know yourself, you will perceive that every event in your life is weighed in the faultless balance of equity.
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.