Text of the meditation
Cause and effect cannot be avoided; consequence cannot be escaped. The good person, having put away all resentment, retaliation, self-seeking and egotism, has arrived at a state of equilibrium, and has thereby become identified with the Eternal and Universal Equilibrium.
Having lifted themselves above the blind forces of passion, they understand those forces and contemplate them with a calm, penetrating insight, like a solitary dweller on a mountain who looks down upon the conflict of the storms beneath their feet. For them, injustice has ceased, and they see ignorance and suffering on the one hand, and enlightenment and bliss on the other.
They see that not only the fool and the slave need their sympathy, but that the fraud and the oppressor are equally in need of it, and so their compassion extends to all. Unerring Justice presides over all.
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.