Text of the meditation
Acquire the priceless possession of spiritual discernment. Clothing their soul with the colourless Garment of Humility, a person bends all their energies to uprooting those opinions they have loved and cherished until now. They learn to distinguish between Truth, which is one and unchangeable, and their own and others' opinions about Truth, which are many and changeable.
They see that their opinions about Goodness, Purity, Compassion and Love are very distinct from those qualities themselves, and that they must stand upon those divine Principles, and not on their own opinions. Until now they have regarded their own opinions as of great value, but now they cease to elevate them, and to defend them against those of others, and come to regard them as utterly worthless.
Stand upon the divine Principles of Purity, Wisdom, Compassion and Love.
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.