"Try me, and know my thoughts."

It may be said that we examine ourselves most effectively by reflecting upon what things our thought turns to most frequently and easily when we are alone, and on the degree of delight we experience in picturing those things in our imagination. 

 

We do this also by reflecting on what things (among those that enter our imagination from without) we seize on with delight, linger over, and identify with ourselves by reenacting with us as the central character. What we meditate on this way is what we would actually be doing at that moment if we were in the spiritual world. And by noting the form and quality of our meditation, we can see what our situation is in the other world at that moment, and from this the general quality of our life. 

It is true, of course, that examination of our thoughts in the light of Divine Truth will not reveal to us what our final lot after death will be. But if we cultivate a habit of meditation, reflect deeply upon it, discover our delights by so doing, and in their stead picture their spiritual correspondents, we will be able to see what our state in the other life would be at that time if we were in it, and what it will be after death if we continue in the same delights and do not change. And by so examining our intentions, and thus suffering the Lord to "search" and "try" us, we may, in His light, know our hearts and our thoughts.  (NCL 1948)