“What I call the New World is an ideal world — the world we dream of living in: a better world, fairer, more beautiful, more harmonious, more pleasant to live in, and ultimately happier. A world freed from fear and the games of the ego. A world governed by the forces of authentic, unconditional, and universal love. A world where peace, joy, tolerance, and kindness have become the norm.

Let us be the change we want to see in the world, in the spirit of Gandhi, who wrote that ‘if we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.’ It is up to all of us to act, each at our own level, to begin building this New World today. Let us stop criticizing everything we dislike on this Earth: it is wasted time and energy!

Let us put on our glasses of love and, together, become the courageous builders of a better world — one increasingly aligned with the ideal we feel deep within our heart — knowing that, as this quote attributed to Albert Schweitzer puts it so well: ‘The ideal remains for us what a star is for the sailor. It cannot be reached, but it remains a guide.’”