The Universe Is Smiling: "Comfort"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Enjoy the comfort of friendship - with a smile :)

"There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love."
- Author unknown
"I always felt that the great high privilege, relief, and confort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing."
- Katherine Mansfield

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: "Complexity"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Don't get lost in the complexity of your being - keep it simple!

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
- Confucius
"Complexity is the prodigy of the world. Simplicity is the sensation of the universe. Behind complexity, there is always simplicity to be revealed. Inside simplicity, there is always complexity to be discovered."
- Gang Yu 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Connection"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: We are all connected.

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."
- John Muir
"We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing though each other as doorways."
- Marge Piercy  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Listening"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings: 
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Listen to the sound of your inner voice :)

"There is something in everyone of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls."
- Howard Thurman 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Embrace"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Embrace all living creatures ..."

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
- Albert Einstein

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: "Playfulness"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Play and be joyful :)

"It is a requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes."
- Thomas Aquinas
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
- Tom Robbins 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Connection"

Happy Valentine's Day! Enjoy being alive and make it a special day for you with a smile :)

"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside, it, under it and over it."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and thy must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
- Anais Nin

The Universe Is Smiling: "Relaxation"

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

A: Take your time, relax, and listen to your dreams! :)
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop."
 - Ovid
"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."
 - Chinese Proverb
"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."
- Etty Hillesum

The Universe Is Smiling: "Creation & Imagination"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Create a joyful life, one day at a time :)

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

- Berthold Auerbach

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

- Bono  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Rhythm"

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

"To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

"Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction." - Kabbalah

The Universe Is Smiling: "Life"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Take life into your own hands."

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."

- Richard Bach

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

- Havelock Ellis    

The Universe Is Smiling: "Angel"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: You are an angel - at least most of the time :)

"We are each of us angels with only one wing. And we can only fly by embracing one another."

- Lucretius

"May God grant you always...A sun beam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering angel so nothing can harm you. Laughter to cheer you. Faithful friends near you. And wherever you pray, Heaven to hear you.

- Irish Blessing    

The Universe Is Smiling: "You hold the key"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

 A: "You hold the key!"

"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Spring Spirits"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Nature spirits are weaving the fabric of spring: Enjoy!

"My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory. the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipation and joy.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star; it is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."

- John Ruskin  

The Universe Is Smiling: "We are all in it together"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: We are all in it together.

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box."

- Author unknown    

The Universe Is Smiling: "Companions"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Come along for the ride!

"The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind of companion."

- William Makepeace Thackeray 

The Universe Is Smiling: Fountain of Youth

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

A: "There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age."
- Sophia Loren

The Universe Is Smiling: Uncertainty

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

A: "Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security."
- John Allen Paulos
"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."
- Erich Fromm