Text of the meditation
As a being of thought, your dominant mental attitude will determine your condition in life. You are the thinker of your thoughts, and as such you are the maker of your self and condition. Thought is causal and creative, and appears in your character and life in the form of results.
There are no accidents in your life. Both its harmonies and its antagonisms are the responsive echoes of your thoughts. A person thinks, and their life appears. If your dominant mental attitude is peaceable and lovable, bliss and blessedness will follow you; if it is resistant and hateful, trouble and distress will cloud your pathway.
Out of ill-will will come grief and disaster; out of good-will, healing and reparation. The boundary lines of your thoughts are self-erected fences.
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.