Text of the meditation
The mortal person lives in the time or world state of consciousness, which begins and ends. The immortal person remains poised and steadfast under all changes, and the death of their body will not in any way interrupt the eternal consciousness in which they abide.
Of such a one it is said, "They shall not taste of death," because they have stepped out of the stream of mortality, and established themselves in the abode of Truth. Bodies, personalities, nations and worlds pass away, but Truth remains, and its glory is undimmed by time.
The immortal person, then, is one who has conquered themselves; who no longer identifies with the self-seeking forces of the personality, but has trained themselves to direct those forces with the hand of a master, and so has brought them into harmony with the causal energy and source of all things.
The immortal person lives in the cosmic or heaven state of consciousness, in which there is neither beginning nor end, but an eternal now.
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.