Share to double.

In The Art of Living Centre in Sungai Petani, everyone has so much happiness.

Why should that be the case?

First, all AOL (Art of Living) members regard the centre as their home. Here's where everyone looks upon each other as a member of one big family. That's the motto of The Art of Living: One World Family.

And we are! From Christianity and Islam, we have Adam and Eve. From this couple, people all over the world came.

From the angle of science, all of us find our common ancestors in evolution. We evolved from the same source, thus having the same gene pool, giving us the similar physical body. What we evolved from is a matter opinion from various scientists.

Then, as a result climatic differences, we get different skin colours. Food and nutrition brings the differences in size while the tool for communication, language, developed in the areas people commune.

So, we are all humans living in one big wide world. We ought to regard each other as relatives in one big family, living in peace, helping each other and sharing whatever there is in it.

One of the things that costs us nothing to share with others is happiness. When we show our gladness at meeting anyone with smiles, we generate even more smiles.


In The Art of Living, we share our happiness in volunteering as well as in the activities that we have each week. This generates so much happiness that we look forward to gathering there for the activities.

On my walks up and down a hill each morning, I smile and greet everyone, and I am always blessed with a smile in return. That smile brings the light of happiness into our hearts and life. It confirms that we are never alone and there are many who would share their happiness with us. Coupled with the exercise from the walk, this glow of joy of exchanging happiness brings relieve to stress, relief which is so important to our mental and physical health.

In fact, anything that we share with others on this planet will double its value. Even eating when more expenses have to be involved, the joy and happiness will be doubled if not tripled. Just imagine having to eat alone, without someone to enjoy the time with. However, with someone to share the food as well as the good companionship, how much better, how much happier, how much more fun we can derive from life.

Just as I wish to share the things in this blog so that, together, we can develop even more, enjoy even more and live even more.