The Universe Is Smiling: "Spirit Animals"

Welcome to the Chinese New Year of the Wood Horse. In the spirit of the changing years and the changing animals, may I ask, what is your spirit animal, your power animal? Here are some power animals to get you into the right spirit with some quotes about "power" and "spirit" :)

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."
- Epictetus
"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."
- C.S. Lewis

The Universe Is Smiling: "Time"

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

A: Take your time :)
"Smile, breathe, and go slowly!"
- Thich Nhat Hanh
"You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future."
- Anonymous
"To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time."
 - Leonard Bernstein

The Universe Is Smiling: "Rebirth: Becoming Your Future"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: "What is today's wisdom?"

A: "Rebirth: Becoming Your Future."

"Bat...symbolizes the need for a ritualistic death of some way of life that no longer suits your new growth pattern. This can mean a time of letting go of old habits, and of assuming the position in life that prepares you for rebirth, on in some cases initiation... If you resist your destiny, it can be a long, drawn out, or painful death. The universe is always asking you to grow and become your future."

- "Medicine Cards" by Jamie Sams & David Carson 

 

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

The Universe Is Smiling: Our Beloved Nature

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

- John Muir

The Universe Is Smiling: Exploration

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere."

- Buddhist Saying

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

- T.S. Eliot    

The Universe Is Smiling: Moon Child

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Moonrise

by Margaret P. Gallagher  

Under the white moon rising

Night sings a magic song

Beauty this one brief night time

Beauty the whole night long

Follow the silver shadows

Under a silver sky

Capture the night bird's singing

Enchanted time passing by

Over the changing landscape

Watch as the slow white

moon

Gathers the night past magic

Sinks in a soundless tune.

The Universe Is Smiling: World of Exploration

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A:   "Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known."

- Vladimir Nabokov