Text of the meditation
The Divine Order cannot be perceived until passion and self are transcended. A person who thinks, "I have been slighted, I have been injured, I have been insulted, I have been treated unjustly," cannot know what justice is; blinded by self, they cannot perceive the pure Principles of Truth, and, brooding over their wrongs, they live in continual misery.
In the region of passion there is a ceaseless conflict of forces, causing suffering to all who are caught up in them. There is action and reaction, deed and consequence, cause and effect; and within and above all is the divine Justice, regulating the play of forces with the utmost mathematical accuracy, balancing cause and effect with the finest precision.
Justice is not perceived, and cannot be perceived, by those who are engaged in conflict.
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.