Text of the meditation
It is a common error to suppose that little things can be passed by, and that the greater things are more important. Whoever adopts the four ethical principles as the law and base of their life, who raises the edifice of character upon them, who in their thoughts and words and actions does not wander from them, whose every duty and every passing transaction is performed in strict accordance with their demands, such a person, laying down the hidden foundations of integrity of heart securely and strongly, cannot fail to raise up a structure that will bring them honour; and they are building a temple in which they can repose in peace and blessedness: even the strong and beautiful Temple of their life.
Whoever would have a life secure and blessed must carry the practice of the moral principles into every detail of it.
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.