For a healthy, happy and successful life, we need a complete and holistic life-view. This is what is missing in today’s world. Most of us are trapped in narrow thinking. An accountant thinks he can solve all problems with accounting, an engineer believes technology is the solution to everything. The doctor believes medicine and surgery can restore perfect health. The bureaucrat believes he alone has the key to all the solutions. After a university professor gets his doctorate, he feels as if he now has all the knowledge in the world. Alems and priests believe religious practices are the panacea for every problem. A young man or woman thinks getting a job in a multinational company is everything in life. But there is an ocean-like gap between these and a successful and fulfilling life. Because we cannot breach this gap, we fall victim to disease, misery and despair.

 The truth is life is the summation of all these things. According to World Health Organization, health is ‘a state of complete physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.’ So, we need much more than medicine and nutritious food for good health. Similarly, just watching TV all the time cannot bring mental peace. Again, one cannot be happy if the members of his family or community are suffering. In the same way, if one is spiritually empty then he cannot be content, no matter how much material success he has. Only when we can successfully integrate all these aspects can we be truly fulfilled.

This is the message of Quantum. Have a holistic approach towards life. According to Quantum, we can progress towards a complete and fulfilling life by adopting the right mindset and learning the ‘science of living’. Leo Tolstoy wrote: “Most important of all the sciences one can and must have to learn is the science of living, so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.”

 Quantum is this science of living which tells us how to live successfully and how to do the least harm and the most good. We are trying to enlighten ourselves and others in the light of this science of living, changing lives in the process.

The first requirement of a healthy life is inner peace, which can be attained by having the right attitude. Ignorance or absence of proper live-view is the root of all suffering. Quantum frees man from the darkness of ignorance, and helps him adopt a proactive attitude. He learns to be grateful for what he has. He learns to see every problem as a challenge and transform it into a possibility with confidence and wisdom. He thus changes his life by changing his attitude.

 The second pillar is health. In the absence of health, everything else is meaningless. A journalist once asked Henry Ford, the wealthiest American of his time, “What is the most important thing that happened to you in the last 6 months?” He replied, “A few days ago I was able to digest a quarter of a half-boiled egg.” It was not having billion dollar profits but digesting an egg that he considered more important. This illustrates the importance of good health.

Quantum’s guidelines about health are based on the latest findings of nutrition science and yet consistent with our cultural heritage.

The third important pillar is prosperity. By prosperity, we mean a feeling of abundance and the ability to transform every logical desire into reality. With the help of the five Quantum Laws of Prosperity thousands of graduates are spontaneously progressing towards a prosperous and fulfilling life.

The fourth is family. Our family is our primary source of happiness. The emptiness and depression prevalent in the Western world is largely due to the absence of strong family bonds. Those who have neglected their family or sought happiness outside of it have all faced disappointment and despair.

One of Quantum’s successes has been to help many families become closer and happier. No other philosophy has been accepted by all members of a family the way Quantum has been in our country.

The fifth pillar to a happy life is spirituality. Human beings are born with the intrinsic urge to worship, to pray, to surrender themselves to a higher being. We carry this desire to establish faith in a supreme being in our genetic blueprint. This is why, even after attaining everything in life we still feel something is missing. It is this emptiness and discontentment that led to the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union after 70 years.

In 1967, Soviet Union celebrated the 50th anniversary of the revolution amidst much enthusiasm and grandeur. Times made a cover story on “50 Years of Soviet Union”. According to this article, the most respected place in the Soviet Union was the shrine of Lenin. People came to visit it all the time. A woman had come to visit the place with her daughter and son-in-law. When the woman was asked why she was there she replied she had come to seek Lenin’s blessings for her daughter and son-in-law so that they could have a happy life.

This 48 year old woman was born in post-revolution Soviet Union where the state religion was atheism. Yet she had the urge to surrender to a higher being. When she found no one else she took Lenin as a God. This is human nature, to look for ways to fill the spiritual void within us.
 Quantum provides an excellent way to fill up this emptiness. Quantum respects everyone’s beliefs and encourages everyone to follow their religion. Quantum believes that by practicing true religion one can become a unique human being. And through meditation he can submit himself completely to the Supreme Being and attain eternal bliss.

Thus Quantum is a humane philosophy which is rooted in universal religious values and nurtured by science. Every guideline of Quantum is consistent with the dictums of religion, science and logic. It has all the ingredients necessary for creating a happy and prosperous life. It is the science of living for the modern people of the new millennium, which will help fulfill our potential, enrich our lives, so that it brims over with peace and prosperity.