Text of the meditation
The person of integrity turns all evil things to good account. Let the person of integrity rejoice and be glad when they are severely tried; let them be thankful that they have been given an opportunity of proving their loyalty to the noble principles they have espoused; and let them think, "Now is the hour of holy opportunity!
Now is the day of triumph for Truth! Though I lose the whole world, I will not desert the right!" So thinking, they will return good for evil, and will think compassionately of the wrong-doer. The slanderer, the backbiter and the wrongdoer may seem to succeed for a time, but the Law of Justice prevails; the person of integrity may seem to fail for a time, but they are invincible, and in none of the worlds, visible or invisible, can there be a forged weapon that will prevail against them.
The person of integrity can never be subdued by the forces of darkness, having subdued all those forces within themselves.
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.