The Universe Is Smiling: "Listening"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Listen and receive with an open heart :)

"The first duty of love is to listen."
 - Paul Tillich
"Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering."
- Winnie the Pooh
"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."
- Karl A. Menninger

The Universe Is Smiling & Asking for Your Participation

This week's drawing doesn't have a theme nor a quote. I want YOU to find a title for the drawing & a matching quote.

The 1. winner will get a print of the drawing mounted on a 6"x6"x2' hand painted woodblock, with YOUR winning title & quote on the back panel.
The 2. winner will get a print of this drawing (6" x 6").
The contest will end February 13th.

Have fun, feel inspired and let your creative juices flow - with a smile :)
Send me an email with your suggestions.

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: "Love"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
"All you need is Love. Love is all you need..."
- John Lennon & Paul McCartney

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
- Thomas Carlyle
"I love you not because of who your are, but because who I am when I am with you."
- Roy Croft

The Universe Is Smiling: "Tenderness"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Tenderness of heart brings a smile to every situation."

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
- Jane Austen
"When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become."
- Louis Pasteur 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Guidance"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Follow your inner guidance - with a smile."

"Let your heart guide you. It whispers softly, so listen closely."
- Anonymous
"By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life."
- Thomas More (English Humanist 1478 - 1535) 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Dance"

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

A: Dance with your heart! :)
"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another."
- Author unknown
"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."
- Agnes de Mille  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Heart Matters"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Let your heart speak with a smile :)

"What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."

 - Mark Twain

"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream."

- Paulo Coelho

The Universe Is Smiling: Circle

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "If you love someone, put their name in a circle; because hearts can be broken, but circles never end."

- Author unknown  

"Think of the wonderful circles, in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in the circles."

E.T.A. Hoffmann

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: "Heart Energy = Love"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Heart Energy = Love"

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

 - Morrie Schwartz

"If you want to be loved, be lovable."

- Ovid 

The Universe Is Smiling: Love forever!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

I wanted to draw a "love message for a special someone". In good Inner Voice Drawing fashion I didn't plan the drawing but surrendered to my intuition and let it happen. I wasn't prepared to see a shaggy "kangaroo-dog" appear as a love messenger, but he made me smile. He clearly is from another planet, so the message must be universal :)

 "Love is the flower you've got to let grow."
- John Lennon   
"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."
- Henry Drummond
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- Lao Tzu 

The Universe Is Smiling: Broadening One's Horizon

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's healing power?

A: Seeing reality clearly and uniting one's personal will with cosmic purpose. Even though life may be hard and tedious at the moment, heart and mind are open to great possibilities. 

The Universe is Smiling: Reinvent Yourself

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

 A: Reinvent yourself! Take heart and be creative!