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else think for us, we have to become our own masters before we can have any force with anyone else; advice is all right but it does not amount to anything only as it 61 helps us to reach our own conclusions. Do not let us worry about what anybody will think of us; "no man is our friend and no man is our enemy, but all men are our teachers." We may do as we please, it is not really any matter what anyone thinks but ourselves; if others do not like what we do, let them leave us; we want companions in our life work not slaves, servants or masters. The only thing that anyone is ever really responsible for is themselves; it is our business to lift up the "I" until by association with it all men will be lifted up. Do not think it is a dangerous philosophy to teach that everyone shall do just what they please. Far from it, for in doing what they want to do, they find the greatest of all lessons that there is one great and continuous brotherhood of life, action and being; and that "no man liveth to himself and no man dieth to himself" and when they always do as they please, their inborn sense of right will teach them to never please to do anything that is not for their own good and the good of the world at large. They will find the greatness of happiness in doing what they want and they will want the whole world to be happy. Absolute perfect union with our own selves and common sense relations to all external life; belief in our own power of accomplishment and our own Divine right to be "what we will to be," faith, hope, love toward all others and that great world-wide charity that "thinketh no evil," this is poise, and as we learn it on the human, physical plane of expression, we pass into the unseen psychic world of laws and become one with that great invisible world-poise which never faileth. Poise in the human conscience is the deep spiritual fulcrum through which man can pull his own material universe into form poise in the center means power outside and poise and power become the foundation for a success that is eternal. 62 NINETEENTH SUCCESS METHOD THE RULES OF THE GAME There is a game called life Which all men know; Some play it with wide open eyes, While others risk their all upon one throw, And throwing, lack the craft to load the dice. THIS throwing and lacking the craft to load the dice is the failure side of effort, and the winner in the game is he who plays with a complete and perfect understanding. Every game has rules; there is n