Thursday, January 29, 2009

Daily meditation, Jan 29th: James Allen

All evil is corrective and remedial, and is therefore not permanent.

JANUARY TWENTY - NINTH

BY earnest self-examination strive to realise, and not merely hold as a theory, that evil is a passing phase, a self-created shadow; that all your pains, sorrows, and misfortunes have come to you by a process of undeviating and absolutely perfect law; have come to you because you deserve and require them, and that by first enduring, and then understanding them, you may be made stronger, wiser, nobler. When you have fully entered into this realisation, you will be in a position to mould Your own circumstances, to transmute all evil into good, and to weave, with a master hand, the fabric of your destiny.

Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Daily meditation, Jan 28th: James Allen

No pure thought, no unselfish deed, can fall short of its felicitous results, and every such result is a happy consummation.

January Twenty-eighth

IF to-day is cold and gloomy, is that a cause for despair ? Do we not know that there are warm, bright days ahead ? Already the birds are beginning to sing, and the tremulous trill in their little throats is prophetic of the approaching love of a new spring, and of the bounty of a summer that as yet is but a sleeping germ in the womb of this gloomy day, but whose birth is sure, and its full growth certain. No effort is vain. The spring of all your aspirations is near—very near; and the summer of your unselfish deeds will surely come to pass.

Self shall depart, and Truth shall take its place; The Changeless One, the Indivisible, Shall take up His abode in me, and cleanse The White Robe of the Heart Invisible.

Go to your task with love in your heart, and you will go to it light-hearted and cheerful.