This page offers you a daily dose of James Allen. Here you’ll find today’s entries from James Allen’s book of meditations for every day in the year and Morning and evening thoughts:
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Confusion, suffering, and spiritual darkness follow the thoughtless.
THE man who is afraid to think search-
ingly upon his opinions, and to reason
critically upon his position, will have
to develop moral courage before he
can acquire discrimination.
A man must be true to himself, fearless with himself, before he can perceive the pure principles of Truth, before he can receive the all-revealing Light of Truth.
The more Truth is inquired of, the brighter it shines ; it cannot suffer under examination and analysis.
The more error is questioned, the darker it grows ; it cannot survive the entrance of pure and searching thought.
To " prove all things " is to find the good and to throw away the evil.
He who reasons and meditates learns to discriminate ; he who discriminates discovers the eternally True.
Harmony, blessedness, and the Light of Truth attend upon the thoughtful.
Men go after much company, and seek out
new excitements, but they are not
acquainted with peace; in divers paths of
pleasure they search for happiness, but
they do not come to rest; through divers
ways of laughter and feverish delirium they
wander after gladness and life, but their
tears are many and grievous, and they
do not escape death.
Drifting upon the ocean of life in
search of selfish indulgences, men are
caught in its storms, and only after many
tempests and much privation do they fly
to the Rock of Refuge which rests in the
deep silence of their own being.
Meditation centered upon divine realities
is the very essence and soul of prayer.
It is the silent reaching upward of the
soul toward the Eternal.
Meditation is the intense dwelling,
in thought, upon an idea or theme with
the object of thoroughly comprehending
it; and whatsoever you constantly meditate
upon, you will not only come to understand,
but will grow more and more into its
likeness, for it will become incorporated
with your very being, will become, in fact,
your very self.
If, therefore, you constantly dwell upon
that which is selfish and debasing, you will
ultimately become selfish and debased;
if you ceaselessly think upon that which
is pure and unselfish, you will surely
become pure and unselfish.
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