Providing practical solutions to Mankind’s most pressing problems, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most acclaimed humanitarians of this or any age. With over 250 million copies of his works in circulation and dozens of international bestsellers, he is also among the most influential authors of all time.

Yet no more fitting statement typifies the man than his simple declaration: “I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.”

In that same spirit, a worldwide movement—now many millions strong—continues to forward his legacy for social betterment across more than a hundred nations.

As he says in The Way to Happiness, “One can feel at times like a spinning leaf blown along a dirty street, one can feel like a grain of sand stuck in one place. But nobody has said that life was a calm and orderly thing: it isn’t. One isn’t a tattered leaf nor a grain of sand: one can, to greater or lesser degree draw his road map and follow it.”

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