Table of Contents

A Common Sense Guide to Better Living

By L. Ron Hubbard

Introduction

Cover

How to Use This Book

This is a way toward a much safer and happier life for you and others.

Why I Gave You This Book

Happiness

It is in your power to point the way to a less dangerous and happier life.

Take Care of Yourself

1-1. Get care when you are ill.

1-2. Keep your body clean.

1-3. Preserve your teeth.

1-4. Eat properly.

1-5. Get rest.

Be Temperate

2-1. Do not take harmful drugs.

2-2. Do not take alcohol to excess.

Observing the points above, one becomes more physically able to enjoy life.

Don't Be Promiscuous

3-1. Be faithful to your sexual partner.

Sex is a big step on the way to happiness and joy. There is nothing wrong with it if it is followed with faithfulness and decency.

Love and Help Children

The way to happiness has on its route the loving and the helping of children from babyhood to the brink of adult life.

Honor and Help Your Parents

The way to happiness includes being on good terms with one's parents or those who brought one up.

Set a Good Example

The way to happiness requires that one set a good example for others.

Seek to Live with the Truth

7-1. Do not tell harmful lies.

7-2. Do not bear false witness.

The way to happiness lies along the road to truth.

Do Not Murder

The way to happiness does not include murdering your friends, your family, or yourself being murdered.

Don't Do Anything Illegal

The way to happiness does not include the fear of being found out.

Support a Government Designed and Run For All the People

The way to happiness is hard to travel when shadowed with the oppression of tyranny. A benign government, designed and run for all the people, has been known to smooth the way: when such occurs, it deserves support.

Support A Government Designed And Run For The People

Unscrupulous and evil men and groups can usurp the power of goverment and use it to their own ends.

Goverment organized and conducted solely for self-interested individuals and groups gives the society a short live span

Do Not Harm a Person of Good Will

The way to happiness is far more easily followed when one supports people of good will.

Safeguard and Improve Your Environment

12-1. Be of good appearance.

12-2. Take care of your own area.

12-3. Help take care of the planet.

If others do not help safeguard and improve the environment, the way to happiness could have no roadbed to travel on at all.

Do Not Steal

The road to happiness cannot be traveled with stolen goods.

Be Worthy of Trust

14-1. Keep your word once given.

The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.

Fulfill Your Obligations

The way to happiness is very hard to travel when one is burdened with the weight of obligations which one is owed or which he has not discharged.

Be Industrious

The way to happiness is a high road when it includes industriousness that leads to tangible production.

Be Competent

17-1. Look.

17-2. Learn.

17-3. Practice.

The way to happiness is best traveled with competent companions.

Respect the Religious Beliefs of Others

The way to happiness can become contentious when one fails to respect the religious beliefs of others.

Try Not to Do Things to Others That You Would Not Like Them to Do to You

The way to happiness is closed to those who do not restrain themselves from committing harmful acts.

Try to Treat Others as You Would Want Them to Treat You

Virtues: justness, loyalty, good sportsmanship, fairness, honesty, kindness, consideration, compassion, self-control, tolerance, forgivingness, benevolence, belief, respect, politeness, dignity, admiration, friendliness, love, integrity

The way to happiness is made much brighter by applying the precept: "Try to treat others as you would want them to treat you.

Flourish and Prosper

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!

Epilogue

The way to happiness is a high-speed road to those who know where the edges are.

The Way to Happiness Foundation

© 1996 ABLE International. All Rights Reserved.