Text of the meditation
When aspiration is united to concentration, the result is meditation. When a person intensely desires to reach and realise a higher, purer and more radiant life than the merely worldly and pleasure-loving life, they engage in aspiration; and when they earnestly concentrate their thoughts on finding that life, they practise meditation.
Without intense aspiration there can be no meditation. Lethargy and indifference are fatal to its practice. The more intense the nature of a person, the more readily they will find meditation and the more successfully they will practise it. A fiery nature will most rapidly scale the heights of Truth in meditation, when its aspirations have become sufficiently awakened.
Meditation is necessary to spiritual success.
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.