Text of the meditation
Pain, grief, sorrow and misery are the fruits of which passion is the flower. Where the passion-bound soul sees only injustice, the good person, who has conquered passion, sees cause and effect, sees the Supreme Justice. It is impossible for such a person to regard themselves as treated unjustly, because they have ceased to see injustice.
They know that no one can injure or cheat them, having ceased to injure or cheat themselves. However passionately or ignorantly others may act toward them, it cannot possibly cause them any pain, for they know that whatever comes to them (it may be abuse and persecution) can come only as the effect of what they themselves have formerly sent out.
They therefore regard all things as good, rejoice in all things, love their enemies, and bless those who curse them, regarding them as the blind but beneficent instruments by which they are enabled to pay their moral debts to the Great Law. The Supreme Justice and the Supreme Love are one.
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.