Text of the meditation
Virtue consists in fighting sin day after day. Stop treading every byway of dependence, every winding side path that lures your soul into the shadowland of the past and the future, and show your native, divine strength now. Come out onto "the open road." What you want to be, and hope to be, you can be now.
Non-accomplishment lives in your endless postponement, and since you have the power to postpone, you also have the power to accomplish—to accomplish continually. Realise this truth, and you will be today, and every day, the ideal person you dreamed of. Act now, and see: all things are done; live now, and behold: you are in the midst of Plenty; be now, and know that you are perfect.
Holiness consists in leaving sin, unnoticed and ignored, to die by the wayside.
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.