The Universe Is Smiling: Wings of Trust

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings."
- Victor Hugo    

The Universe Is Smiling: Realization

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

This morning I was on the phone with a friend of mine, who is on a semi-retreat in Bodhgaya where the Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment. While my friend described the quietude and meditative energy around him, I started this drawing, opening myself to the flow of positive energy and asking the question:
Q: What is the message from Bodhgaya?
A:"When at last, in a single flash, you attain full realization, you will only be realizing the Buddha-nature which has been with you all the time."
- Huang-Po 
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."
- Buddha 

The Universe Is Smiling: Dream of A Quiet Life

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "The quieter you become, the more you can hear."
- Ram Dass
"The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility."
- Swami Rama    

The Universe Is Smiling: Let's go!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Life loves to be taken by the lapel and be told: 'I am with you kid. Let's go.'"
- Maya Angelou  

The Universe Is Smiling: Welcome!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "A smile is the universal welcome."
- Max Eastman
"If I could choose but one friend, it would be you."
- Anonymous"

The Universe Is Smiling: Where you go, There you are

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."
- Thomas Merton
"And remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
- Confucius 

The Universe Is Smiling: We Are Dancers

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
 
A: "We dance for laughter,
We dance for tears,
We dance for madness,
We dance for fears,
We dance for hopes,
We dance for screams,
We are dancers,
We create the dreams."
- Albert Einstein 

The Universe Is Smiling: Concentrate the Mind on the Present Moment

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Do not dwell in the past,
Do not dream of the future,
Concentrate the mind on the present moment."
- The Buddha