The Universe Is Smiling: "Listening"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "The beauty of showing up."

"The first duty of love is to listen."

 - Paul Tillich

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

- Leo Buscaglia

The Universe Is Smiling: "Discernment"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Discernment.

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson  

The Universe Is Smiling: Simple and Clear

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

- Leonardo DaVinci

"Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature."

- Thomas Kempis 

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: Looking beyond imperfections

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you have decided to look beyond the imperfections."

- unknown author  

The Universe Is Smiling: Let it all hang out

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What to do today?
 
A: Let it all hang out! It's summertime.

The Universe Is Smiling: "Where will you go...?"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

 

A: "I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of."

- Michel de Montaigne

"If you do not get it from yourself,

Where will you go for it?"

- Zen saying   

The Universe Is Smiling: "I am Awake"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's message on this auspicious day of Chokhor Duchen, the first time the Buddha taught after attaining enlightenment?

A: One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah?"
"No", answered the Buddha.
"Then are you a healer?"
"No", Buddha replied.
"Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted.
"No, I am not a teacher."
"Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated.
"I am awake", Buddha replied.