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: "Patience"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Be patient!

"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
- Leonardo da Vinci
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions."
- Rainer Maria Rilke

The Universe Is Smiling: "Stillness"

Q: What is this week's wisdom?
A: A moment of stillness brings us in contact with our true, divine Self. Enjoy some stillness this week - with a smile :)

"Learning ho to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance."
- Morgan Freeman
"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."
 - Deepak Chopra
"How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.
Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony."
- William Shakespeare

The Universe Is Smiling: Realization

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

This morning I was on the phone with a friend of mine, who is on a semi-retreat in Bodhgaya where the Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment. While my friend described the quietude and meditative energy around him, I started this drawing, opening myself to the flow of positive energy and asking the question:

Q: What is the message from Bodhgaya?

A:"When at last, in a single flash, you attain full realization, you will only be realizing the Buddha-nature which has been with you all the time."
- Huang-Po 
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."

- Buddha 

The Universe Is Smiling: Dream of A Quiet Life

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "The quieter you become, the more you can hear."

- Ram Dass

"The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility."

- Swami Rama    

The Universe is Smiling: Not Knowing

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

 A: Relax! There is no need to understand everything.

 "Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle."

- Lao Tzu