The Universe Is Smiling: "Peace"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Have a peaceful day and make someone smile.

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
 - Jimi Hendrix
"Peace begins with a smile."
- Mother Teresa
"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."
- Mahatma Gandhi

The Universe Is Smiling: "Travel"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Travel your world with a smile :)

"It is better to travel well than to arrive."
- Buddha
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Universe Is Smiling: "Make a wish!"

Dear Visitors from across the planet,
Thank you for frequenting this site last year. Going forward, today's drawing suggests that you make a wish for the New Year for yourself.
  ----  take your time ----
My wish for you is: May this year bring you health, prosperity, joy, strength, and the humor needed to overcome any challenges with a sense of ease!
Keep smiling :)

"Write it on your heart that eery day is the best day in the year."
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
 - Oprah Winfrey
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The Universe Is Smiling: "Friends"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Cherish your friends - with a smile :)

"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardener who make our souls blossom."
- Marcel Proust
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Reality & Illusion"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Look at the place you find yourself in: is it real, is it an illusion or a dream. And who can know these things :)

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
 - Albert Einstein
"Reality is a sliding door."
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion."
- Rumi  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Skywalker TRUST"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Trust in Yourself!

"Self-trust is the first secret of success."
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry."
- Source unknown 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Relax and trust in the Greater Good!"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's insight?
A: Relax and trust in the Greater Good :)

"Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted."
- Lao Tzu  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Budding"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: We are ever unfolding buds - ready to blossom :)

"And the day came when the risk to remain in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
 - Anais Nin
"All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Dreams"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Listen to your dreams!"

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Dreams are illustrations ... from the book your soul is writing about you."
 - Marsha Norman
"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
- Henry David Thoreau 
 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Flow"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawing:
Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Go with the flow!
"Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate."
- Zhuangzi
"... So this is how you swim inward.
So this is how you flow outwards.
So this is how you pray."
- Mary Oliver
"The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze."
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Universe Is Smiling: "Trust - You are in Charge of the Onion of Your Life"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Trust - You are in Charge of the Onion of Your Life :)
I was intrigued by the discussion on the Inner Voice Village on Facebook to the former drawing "Natural Flow". The word that kept coming up was "Trust". This called for a drawing :) Thus I asked, "what does trust mean to me?" and in good old Inner Voice Drawing fashion I let the drawing appear without interfering. The first reaction was (and often is) an exasperated: what does that mean?! However, if I draw about trust, I have to trust that drawing :) And so I did. Here is my interpretation of the drawing, with a slightly Buddhist bend:

PASSION (the person on the handle), AGGRESSION (the bird with his sharp beak), IGNORANCE (the stuck fish) are in a tight knit relationship and  keep this onion shaped life going, creating karma. However, if we trust that we are on the handle of our onion karma, we are also in charge of each onion peel and if we keep peeling away, finally the fish, the bird, and we ourselves will be free from our own self imposed restrictions. YEAH! :)

"Trust your instincts to the end, though you can render no reason."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson 

The Universe Is Smiling: Prosperous, joyous 2012 to all of you!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Let your heart dance!

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to."

- Khalil Gibran    

The Universe Is Smiling: Taking a Stand

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "We acquire the strength we have overcome."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Knowing others is intelligence;

Knowing yourself is true wisdom.

Mastering others is strength;

Mastering yourself is true power.

If you realize that you have enough,

you are truly rich."

- Tao Te Ching 

The Universe Is Smiling: Happiness

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

- Maxim Gorky

"Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson    

The Universe Is Smiling: Smile

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace."

- Thich Nhat Hanh    

The Universe Is Smiling: Follow Your Own Path

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

 

A: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."

- Henry David Thoreau    

The Universe Is Smiling: Amazing!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson
 "When in doubt, don't.
  - Benjamin Franklin

The Universe Is Smiling: Trust Yourself!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

 

A: "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson    

"Your mind is a garden,

Your thoughts are seeds,

The harvest can be either flowers or weeds."

- Author Unknown

The Universe Is Smiling: Facing the Storm

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: No matter what the case, 

keep your faith and pace.

"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson