The Universe Is Smiling: We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What's today's wisdom?

A: "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."

- Morrie Schwartz    

The Universe Is Smiling: If you want to make your dreams come true, ...

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."

- J.M. Powers

"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."

- Arnold H. Glasow   

The Universe Is Smiling: Window to the Soul

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross  

The Universe Is Smiling: Self-Love

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: Talking with friends and clients, the issue of "self-love" or the lack of it has come up as a frequent topic lately. How to love yourself if you don't recognize your divine beauty; and how to recognize your divine beauty, if you don't love yourself?  A perfect conundrum for an Inner Voice Drawing question, and so I asked:

"How to attain self-love?"

A: "Develop the inner vision and the habit of listening to the inner voice; and you are assured of unshakable peace and infinite joy."

- Atharva Veda

"God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now."

- African-American Proverb 

The Universe Is Smiling: Confidence never comes from having all the answers ...

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is confidence?

 

A: "Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers, it comes from being open to all the questions."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus    

The Universe Is Smiling: Love Is The Bridge

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A:   "Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge."

- Stephen Levine

The Universe Is Smiling: Three Methods to Learn Wisdom

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter."

- Confucius