Another stated, "If people will apply
The Way to Happiness, there will be no murder, no rape, no stealing, no treason, no contagious diseases, no AIDS. People will be rich with human values."
Youth in Israel make The Way to Happiness available in shops, on the streets, on campus and in shopping centres.
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Perhaps the strongest accolade comes from the leader of a humanitarian group in the area. "In the territory of former Yugoslavia, this booklet is needed more than food. If those who committed so many crimes in this area would have followed the message of this booklet, none of these terrible things would have happened."
All told, throughout the mid-1990s, volunteers distributed more than 300,000 copies of The Way to Happiness in the Balkans. In 1999, the then Minister of Education of Kosovo officially endorsed The Way to Happiness with the following letter:
"...The Way to Happiness [Foundation] has our cooperation to distribute the booklet The Way to Happiness in all levels of schools.
"They may also distribute all materials which they may prepare in the future for the education of our students in all levels of education in Kosovo.
"We request that all responsible members of educational institutions at all levels in Kosovo cooperate with this Foundation and help them in the realisation of their purposes."
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To bring the hope of peace and sanity to an area at the brink of full-scale war, volunteers over the past few years have distributed more than two million copies of The Way to Happiness in the Middle East, primarily in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Few regions are more in need of stability than the Middle East, where war, terrorism and conflict have ravaged societies for thousands of years. Although the zone is not generally considered a part of Europe proper, it cannot be debated that the Middle East influences the lives of Europeans across the continent.
To bring the hope of peace and sanity to the area, volunteers over the past few years have distributed more than two million copies of The Way to Happiness in the Middle East, primarily in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Association for Prosperity and Security in the Middle East and the Association for Peace and Understanding in the Middle East — both non-governmental organisations composed of Muslims, Jews, Christians and Scientologists working together to end the violence in the area — organised distribution of the books to Israeli soldiers,Palestinian policemen, school children, government officials and many others. Inserted in newspapers, delivered to mailboxes and directly hand-distributed to Israeli and Palestinian civilians and soldiers by volunteers, the books have begun to change the mood of the area.
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"Your humanitarian efforts in improving life are well known to many all over the world. Now they have also become well known to many Palestinians. With the support of this Foundation, 1.8 million copies of The Way to Happiness were distributed in Palestine and Israel. While we still have so far yet to go, it is making a big difference. For the first time in my life, I saw many Israeli Jews, young and old, men and women, who risked their own lives to support, help and protect Palestinians."
— Zeinab Habash, General Secretary Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Palestine
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Response to an initial distribution of 700,000 copies was so favourable, and the area so in need of beneficial change, that efforts were doubled to bring the book, and the prospects of lasting change, to the region. Donations have since poured in from people around the world to help in the dissemination of
The Way to Happiness. More than a million additional copies for the Middle East thus followed — over a half-million in Hebrew, over a half-million in Arabic and 100,000 in Russian, earmarked for the large number of Russian immigrants living in Israel.
While prospects for peace and actual co-existence amongst the cultures of the Holy Land may appear from news reports to be two worlds apart, public opinion polls validate that, as the books are distributed, public support for peace builds among both Israelis and Palestinians. Today, with The Way to Happiness reaching better than half of the households in the troubled region, more than three-quarters of the populace support taking the first and hardest step towards a lasting peace: mutual cessation of violence.
Daily as a result, the Association for Prosperity and Security in the Middle East receives grateful phone calls and letters from those who have read the book.
A government official who lives and works in Gaza said, "This booklet contains rules that everyone should follow and be committed to in his everyday life. Without these rules, earth would be lost. Man finds himself engaged in wars, insanity, bloodshed, lost values and chaos that takes over. I was really moved when I discovered that The Way to Happiness exists. I felt that at last there is a hope for attaining happiness in society. This booklet will be accepted very well among readers and will astonish them with its principles."
