April 23, 2007
The Way to Happiness - Middle East Peace Campaign
Over 2.5 million The Way to Happiness booklets have been distributed in Israel and in the Occupied Territories!
Although this is really good news, the order of magnitude is still ungraspable. So let us give you a few demonstrations!
These, for instance, are a couple of pallets of Hebrew booklets, each pallet contains about 15,000 booklets and weighs about 600 Kg.
Same for the Arabic booklets.
So far we printed booklets out of paper that is 1 meter wide and at least 5,400 Km in length.
This means the length of paper we have consumed in printing The Way to Happiness books for the Middle East Campaign is half the diameter of Earth! (Earth diameter : 12,756 Km)
Therefore, if we dug a 5,400 Km deep hole in the ground and unrolled the length of paper used we would reach the core of Earth!
Here is another comparison. The length of one booklet is 18.7 cm.
So, if we take one booklet from this pile and another and another and arranged all of the 2.5 million The Way to Happiness books that we have distributed in a continuous line, it would be a line 477 km long, which is almost the entire length of Israel, from Metula, near the Lebanese border, all the way to Eilat in the south!
The length of Israel, driving from Metula to Eilat is 477 km, and since we distributed 2.5 million booklets we have definitely covered Israel with The Way to Happiness.
Why is The Way to Happiness an effective tool for peace?
“…civilization is not something inborn or imperishable; it must be acquired anew by every generation. Man differs from the beast only by education, which may be defined as the technique of transmitting civilization… Through church, or family, or school, or otherwise, there must be a unifying moral code.” - Will Durant, Pulitzer Prize winning author and philosopher
The Way to Happiness book can be that unifying moral code. The Way to Happiness book is not religious, which makes it suitable for use or distribution by anyone or any organization, including schools, businesses and government offices. With over 68 million books distributed, in over 90 languages and in over 100 countries, our campaign is the largest grassroots movement in the world promoting sound principles of conduct.
So join the campaign. If we win, you’ll win, too.
And our children will grow up in a world of honesty, integrity, tolerance and competence.
These are the measurable quantities of The Way to Happiness, the amounts of help, happiness and joy of life we created with more than 2.5 million booklets… all these are immeasurable, these can be felt! - Danny Vidislavsky
