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which we would be better without; quick offense to a well-deserved correction or suggestion; white lies; procrastination; continuous evasions; pretentions all of these eventually crystallize into some big failure law of character and consciousness. Psychological sins are the streams which are converging to make the river of a consciousness in which float liars, thieves and criminals these are only the finished product of the negative psychological law. Success is the product of psychological righteousness or rightness. Honor, integrity, truth, faithfulness, steadfastness all these link us with a cosmic current of power which will manifest for us anything we declare. The one who would lose their right hand rather than betray a friend will never lack friends, and they will be for him the ladder of success up which he will climb to his own perfect accomplishment. The one who can be taught and who will find in everyone and take from everyone a lesson, will soon learn that they have included enough wisdom to be a teacher themselves and that the whole 35 world is wearing out their doorsill. The one who will stand on silent guard until death, if need be, before the shrines and temples of those who have allowed them to enter, will find their own shrines glow with a new radiance, for "no greater love hath any man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend." When we have tracked down and killed all the little psychological foxes in our vines of success, we will soon find them bursting forth with strength and fruitfulness, and success will be our eternal possession because we harvest it from our own fields. 36 ELEVENTH SUCCESS METHOD BUSINESS, BUT NOT TRUTH NOTHING but truth will hold truth, and failure comes as the inevitable reaction of being continually just off the center of absolute truth. The individual who links themselves continuously with things that are just a little off color will find their law returning to them some day in the form of a liar, a thief, or some other equally destructive expression. These lies may be so close to truth that the ordinary individual never detects them, but they are lies just the same and their father is lies, and their mother is destruction. In the business world we meet these failure methods everywhere; salesmen will sell you goods they know are being misrepresented, but they aim only to make sales regardless of everything and it is called good business. It is good business but not truth, and after a