Text of the meditation
Truth lives itself. Meekness, Patience, Love, Compassion and Wisdom are the dominant qualities of Original Simplicity, and so the imperfect cannot understand it. Only Wisdom can apprehend Wisdom, and so the fool says, "No one is wise." The imperfect person says, "No one can be perfect," and so remains where they are.
Though they live with a perfect person all their life, they will not see that person's perfection. Meekness they will call cowardice; Patience and Love and Compassion they will see as weakness; and Wisdom will look to them like folly. Faultless discrimination belongs to the Perfect Whole and does not reside in any part, and so people are urged to refrain from judgment until they have themselves manifested the Perfect Life.
A blameless life is the only witness of Truth.
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.