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On Happiness

On Getting to Know Ourselves by L. Ron Hubbard
"Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself."

Two Rules for Happy Living by L. Ron Hubbard
"To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this: the inability to confront that which is."

Is it possible to be Happy? by L. Ron Hubbard
"...perhaps man himself had to change. Perhaps he had to come up to modern times to find out that the physical universe was not composed of demons and ghosts, to outlive his superstitions, to outlive the ignorance of his forebears. Perhaps he had to do everything, including inventing the atom bomb, before he could finally find himself."

Past, Present and Future by L. Ron Hubbard
"One holds on to things in the past on the postulate that they must not happen in the future. This sticks the person in the past. Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future."

Happiness and Interest by L. Ron Hubbard
"There are an awful lot of people out there. They are looking for happiness. Well, the clue to happiness is being interested in life. People’s happiness is as great as they can create it."

Trapped by L. Ron Hubbard
"If one wants to understand existence and his unhappiness with it, he must understand entrapment and its mechanisms."

Career; Job Stress; Problems at the Workplace by L. Ron Hubbard
"Confusion is the basic cause of stupidity. To the stupid all things except the very simple ones are confused. Thus if one knew the anatomy of confusion, no matter how bright one might be, he would be brighter."

An Ideal State of Being by L. Ron Hubbard
"A man survives as long as he can in one lifetime, at the highest level he can attain in activity and happiness. When he can no longer attain to some hope of this ideal, he succumbs."

On Human Behaviour

A Code of Honour by L. Ron Hubbard
"Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow."

Gain Confidence and Handle Stress by L. Ron Hubbard
"When we trace the cause of a failing business, we will inevitably discover somewhere in its ranks the antisocial personality hard at work. In families which are breaking up, we commonly find one or the other of the persons involved to have such a personality."

Cause of Conflict by L. Ron Hubbard
"We know with despair how difficult it can be to try to stop a conflict. And how seldom it succeeds when we try. Is there some other factor we could use to stop a conflict from developing into actual fighting? The answer seems to be yes. There is, it seems, always a third person or group or party in every fight."

Two Types of People by L. Ron Hubbard
"There may not be evil people, but there are people currently devoted to doing evil actions."

On Morality and Ethics

Clean Hands Make a Happy Life by L. Ron Hubbard
"All mankind lives and each man strives by codes of conduct mutually agreed. Perhaps these codes are good, perhaps they’re bad, it’s only evident they’re codes. Mores bind the race. Coaction then occurs. Thought and motion in accord. A oneness then of purpose and survival so results. But now against that code there is transgression. And so because the code was held, whatever code it was, and man sought comfort in man’s company, he held back his deed and so entered then the bourne in which no being laughs or has a freedom in his heart."

Morals and Ethics by L. Ron Hubbard
"Something which is ethical is a reasonable or a reasoning action or behavior which promotes the maximum survival for everyone concerned in it. Ethics are concerned intimately with survival."

Honest People Have Rights Too by L. Ron Hubbard
"Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free – he is his own trap."

The Supreme Test by L. Ron Hubbard
"The supreme test of a thetan is his ability to make things go right. ...One might ask, “What is meant by right?” This would be forwarding a purpose not destructive to the majority of the Dynamics."

On Communication

Communication is Life by L. Ron Hubbard
"Communication is life. Without it we are dead to all."

Learning Effective Communication Skills by L. Ron Hubbard
"A man is as alive as he can communicate."

Communication and Love by L. Ron Hubbard
"There are three factors in Scientology which are of the utmost importance in handling life. These three factors answer the questions: How should I talk to people? How can I give new ideas to people? How can I find what people are thinking about? How can I handle my work better? We call these three factors in Scientology the A-R-C triangle. It is called a triangle because it has three related points. The first of these points is affinity. The second of these points is reality. The third of these points and the most important is communication."

On Love and Understanding

What is Greatness? by L. Ron Hubbard
"Seeking to achieve any single desirable quality in life is a noble thing. The one most difficult - and most necessary to achieve - is to love one’s fellows despite all invitations to do otherwise."

The Magic Triangle by L. Ron Hubbard
"In order for there to be communication, there must be agreement and affinity. In order for there to be affinity, there must be agreement on reality and communication. In order for there to be reality and agreement, there must be affinity and communication - one, two, three. If you knock affinity out, communication and reality go. If you knock reality out, communication and affinity will go. If you know communication out, they will all go."

Marriage, Family and Strengthening Relationships by L. Ron Hubbard
"Marriage is the foundation of the family unit. In this society and time, the family is the closest knit, self-perpetuating, self-protecting unit. It is necessary economically and otherwise to the society the way it is set up in present time. A culture will go by the boards if its basic building block, the family, is removed as a valid building block. So one can be fairly sure that he who destroys marriage destroys the civilization."

Accent on Ability by L. Ron Hubbard
"Life in its highest state is understanding. Life in its lower states is at a lower level of understanding, and where life has ceased to function and has arrived at what one might call total incapability, there is no understanding at all."

On Helping Others

Kindness by L. Ron Hubbard
"A standard of optimum human performance would be measured on the basis of human kindness as a high and human meanness as a low."

Times Must Change by L. Ron Hubbard
"We cannot, any of us, go on pretending all is well or that all will be well. It is not so. Unless a large and effective effort is made to halt man’s decline, this planet will revert to barren desert. Certainly, with his bombs, racism and inhumanities, he is trying hard enough. Times must change."

By Their Actions... by L. Ron Hubbard
"From where did Earth conceive her traps and aspects that are grim? Earth would be a lovely place if all men helped to help, not to destroy. Think heavily on this point. Judge men from what they think of help."

The Road to Perfection by L. Ron Hubbard
"Man changes in the direction of good with ease - with such ease that it’s unbelievable! We give him a break. We know that if we help him out, why, his society around him - his family, his friends and so forth - they’ll all be bettered because of this. We know that he won’t suffer at all because of this. We simply raise his ability, we make him more able."

Regaining Good Health
"L. Ron Hubbard developed numerous applications of his discoveries for the mental and spiritual aspects of a person’s physical difficulties. And as more and more techniques evolved, a new body of technology came into use, called “Assists.” The ways assists can be applied are almost limitless. They always help and often have miraculous results. Dozens of assists exist today for a wide array of conditions."

On the Human Spirit

The Ultimate Truth by L. Ron Hubbard
"The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages. What the philosopher did not say was how free can one get? And that is the surprise contained in Scientology for everyone who walks the Road to Truth - one can be totally free."

The Phenomena of Death by L. Ron Hubbard
"Man thought he had a human spirit. That is totally incorrect. Man is a human spirit which is enwrapped more or less in a mind which is in a body. That is Homo sapiens."

Man's Relentless Search by L. Ron Hubbard
"The facts of the case are very, very elementary. What he was looking for was evidently not easily discoverable because he didn’t think he’d found anything unless he could see it. And what he was looking for was invisible - a spiritual being."

The Rehabilitation of the Human Spirit by L. Ron Hubbard
"The individual who is [audited] is at first, usually “in” the body and perceiving with the body’s eyes. When exteriorized, he is actually out of the body and still “in” physical universe space. He can, exteriorized, move about and be in places just as though he had a body, seeing without eyes, hearing without ears and feeling without fingers - ordinarily better than with these 'aids'. When he is out of the sphere of influence of the body (a very small one) he becomes serene, confident and knowing. He can handle a body better, can act faster, can recall more and do more than he can while in a body."

Past Lives by L. Ron Hubbard
"A person with amnesia is looked upon as ill. What of a person who can remember only this life? Is this then not a case of amnesia on a grand scale?"

Man's Search for His Soul by L. Ron Hubbard
"To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. [But] in the knowledge I have developed there must lie the answers to that riddle, to that enigma, to that problem - the human soul - for under my hands and others, was seen the best in man rehabilitated. I discovered that a human being is not his body and demonstrated that through Scientology an individual can attain certainty of his identity apart from that of the body. We cannot deal in the realm of the human soul and ignore the fact."

Man Can Save His Soul by L. Ron Hubbard
"Man can save his soul. We know how. If man does not want to be saved that is a decision man must make, each one for himself. You have been invited. You will be accepted. If you do not care to be accepted, that too is your freedom."

On Life and Human Suffering

Consideration and Mechanics by L. Ron Hubbard
"The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual’s freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual."

The Anatomy of Failure by L. Ron Hubbard
"Two things are of paramount importance in Scientology. They are WIN and LOSE. ...Failure derives from failing to do what one intended to do. When one does what one intends to do, one has a win. When one intends to do one thing and accomplishes something else, one has a lose."

On the State of Man by L. Ron Hubbard
"Man does not adapt to an environment. He adapts the environment to himself. And in that lies his success."

How Not to Feel Victimized by L. Ron Hubbard
"All you have to do is straighten it up, clean it up and you’ve got it made. It’s a wonderful feeling to be right with the world."

The Death of Consciousness by L. Ron Hubbard
"Life can be painful. The gaining of experience is often painful. The retaining of that experience is essential. But isn’t it still experience if it doesn’t yet have the pain? Suppose you could wipe out of your life all the pain, physical and otherwise, which you have accumulated. Would it be so terrible to have to part with a broken heart or a psychosomatic illness, with fears and anxieties and dreads?"

The Reason Why by L. Ron Hubbard
"Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game—interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself."

The Game Called Man by L. Ron Hubbard
"Did it ever strike you that life at large could be as much fun, on its broadest scale, in the fullest definition as a nice football game? That there could be as much enthusiasm to even the small, mundane, ordinary things as there might possibly be to playing a very exhilarating game? It is almost far-fetched, isn’t it, to think that talking to one’s fellow man and engaging in cashing a check and doing this and doing that could be a continuous, exhilarating experience, even though it wasn’t big and huge and dramatic."

On Raising Our Level of Consciousness by L. Ron Hubbard
"Accumulated physical pain and loss brings about a reduction of consciousness, a reduction of physical health and a reduction of the will to live to a point where the organism actively, if often slyly, seeks death. Erase or nullify the physical pain, the losses of a lifetime, and vitality returns. The vitality of living, of seeking higher levels of survival, is life itself."

On Self-Determinism

Certainty by L. Ron Hubbard
"The road into uncertainty is the road toward psychosomatic illness, doubts, anxieties, fears, worries and vanishing awareness. As awareness is decreased, so does certainty decrease; and the end of this road is a nothingness which is a total effect."

The Conditions of Existence by L. Ron Hubbard
"The game of life demands that one assume a beingness in order to accomplish a doingness in the direction of havingness."

Confronting
"We are looking here at the basic anatomy of all problems. Problems start with an inability to confront anything. Whether we apply this to domestic quarrels or to insects, to garbage dumps or Picasso, one can always trace the beginning of any existing problem to an unwillingness to confront."

The Anatomy of Control by L. Ron Hubbard
"The cycle of action of life is creation, survival and destruction. Survival could be said to be any change, whether in size or in age or in position in space. The essence of survival is change. If one can start something, change its position in space or existence in time and stop it, all at will, he can be said to control it."

The Ability to Be by L. Ron Hubbard
"When you can be your own best audience and when your applause is the best applause you know of, you’re in good shape."

On the Physical Universe

The Fundamentals of Life by L. Ron Hubbard
"By undertaking a study of the mind from the orientation of physics, and with the application of all the principles known in chemistry, physics and mathematics, it was only then possible to produce some comprehension of this thing we call life in this place we call the physical universe."

The Cycle of Action by L. Ron Hubbard
"Because we may object to a wall being knocked down, we vilify the creativeness involved in knocking it down with the word destructive. Actuality tells us that there is no such thing as destruction. There is only creation against a creation. Reality is the way things appear. Reality is apparency. To do anything about reality, one must search into and discover what underlies the apparency. Of what does reality consist? We see an apparency which has the cycle of action of create-survive-destroy. More basically this cycle of action contains nothing but creation."

On Solutions within the Modern Age

Man's Contest with the Machine Age by L. Ron Hubbard
"Man is in trouble. He has invented himself into a dead end. The more efficient his machinery, the clumsier become his mind and behavior. It is our business to match the forward advance of the machine sciences with a comparable advance in the humanities. We have done so in Scientology."

The Race Against Mans Savage Instincts by L. Ron Hubbard
"Perhaps, now, it may be possible in an overwrought world to do something about the criminals, the insane, about war, the antisocial hatred man feels for man. But it is something of a race, too. It is a race with something my classmates invented - a something called an atom bomb."

The Hope of Man by L. Ron Hubbard
"This work does not represent a revolt. All it represents is the hope that man again can find his own feet, can find himself in a very confused, mechanistic society, and can recover to himself some of the happiness, some of the sincerity and some of the love and kindness with which he was created."