The Way to Happiness - L. Ron Hubbard, A Profile

ife in an immoral society, can be far more than simply difficult when even the most basic human values are held up to ridicule. To counter such declining moral trends, Mr. Hubbard’s The Way to Happiness contains 21 separate precepts—each constituting a rule for living relevant to anyone in our global village. Indeed, more than 50 million copies of the booklet, in 50 countries and 18 languages, are presently in circulation, with no end in sight. Thus far, the work has received four United States Congressional recognitions and enthusiastic endorsement by police, civic leaders, businessmen, and educators. It forms the basis of the highly successful “Set a Good Example” and “Get Drugs off School Grounds” campaigns, involving over 5 million American students in more than 7,000 elementary, junior high and high schools. These campaigns, in turn, have received endorsements from more than 30 state governors, along with directors of state alcohol and drug abuse programs and departments of education in hundreds of communities across the United States.

The praise is well deserved. One Ohio school, prior to participation in The Way to Happiness program, for example, had suffered both routine violence and drug abuse, while students had tested well below the average national reading level. After a two-year Way to Happiness program, those trends were found to have dramatically reversed; the school was declared drug-free and reading levels had risen well above the national averages.


	The Boy Scouts of America is only one of the thousands of youth organizations participating in The Way to Happiness Program.

Likewise, in riot-torn South Central Los Angeles, distribution of The Way to Happiness was found to have profound effects. For instance, after hard-core gang members read (or were read to) The Way to Happiness, they voluntarily removed graffiti from 130 buildings in their neighborhood, while passing out hundreds of copies of the booklets to neighbors. The booklet also inspired food drives and clean-up efforts in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the same again in the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake. Said one South Central Los Angeles community leader who heads the Parents of Watts organization: “We’ve been giving out this book now for about two or three months. Nothing different has come into the community except this particular book—and we do see a change and we have to relate it to The Way to Happiness.”

A picture tour of The Way to Happiness
being used around the world.