All that I have called evil has been good for me, for by it I have learned something.

I have no sorrow, no regrets.

I am filled with praise and rejoicing.

I know that I am being weaned from my mortal sense self that I may show forth the divine likeness.

All that this sense calls affliction are but the growing-pains which are sure to be left behind.

Nothing that anyone can say of me can hurt me or turn me aside.

I press forward steadily. with no thought of blame for them who judge me according to the dead past.

I know but one Judge and one Deliverer.

All malice, hatred, and enmity are left with that past. I bow only love, I feel only love, for every human being.

I begin to know God, for God is Love.