Every New Year gives people the opportunity to start afresh. Instead of making the usual resolutions, if they haven't worked so far, let's make a new one. To help you to do this, I'm introducing two new concepts. 

Existence ennoblement 

Do something every day, so that you in your environment and your environment in your presence, mutually feel better yourselves. All it takes is a smile or a kind word. After every negative thought, consciously think two positive ones about the same subject. Do the same with words and actions. Stop chanting why you can't do something or why it is impossible to achieve something. Instead, think about what you can do to change the situation. Billions of angels and masses of enlightened people are working to make things better for you. Please, at least don't overwrite it! We cannot create it for you and instead of you, to be better, if you do not want to, because you keep creating what you fear. Take just one minute each day to think about using your existence to serve some higher purpose, and if you have the opportunity, do it. By doing so, your existence will become nobler. 

Self-smile  

Smile at yourself in the mirror after you get up and before you go to bed. Smile at yourself when you've done something you can't identify with - thinking it was stupid - and do it in different way next time. Stop beating yourself up! No one but yourself will hold you accountable for anything, because that is not done by persons, but by universal laws, which always consider sincere effort. If someone hurts you, look in the eye and smile, "Is that really what you think of me?". If someone is giving you a hard time, ask, "Is that really what you want for me?" Everything we wish for others is fulfilled in us, because that is how the law of unity works! Smiling at ourselves resolves situations that we have not been able to resolve properly. This is the smile of forgiveness, whereby we forgive ourselves for not being perfect. And just as we are able to forgive ourselves, we forgive others. For we can only create outside ourselves what is already present within. Love yourself, since only then can you love others. Love exists. It is alive independently of everything and everyone. 

I wish you

- renewal in existence, salvation in passing;
- discipline in obligation, grace in suffering;
- embracing of life-play, understanding of turns of fate;
- creative strength, calm, soul-peace and noble trait.

Margaret Rhasoda Varga
UCCM head-master
2021. Budapest, Hungary