The Universe Is Smiling: Happy Balance

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony."
- Thomas Merton
"The world cannot be governed without juggling."
- John Selden    

The Universe Is Smiling: Enthusiasm

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."
- Bo Bennett    

The Universe Is Smiling: Reach out!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you.  All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away."
- Kent Nerburn
"Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light."
- Norman Rice  

The Universe Is Smiling: Today I embrace life!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom in the face of earthquakes, tsunamis, and other man made disasters?
A: "We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
- Kenji Miyazawa
"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but to embrace it."
- Kevyn Aucoin 

The Universe Is Smiling: Hoofbeats of creative exploration

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Hoof beats of creative exploration .... 
"What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real."
- Rabindranath Tagore
 

The Universe Is Smiling: Embracing all creatures

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
 A: "Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
- Albert Einstein    
"Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way."
- John Muir

The Universe Is Smiling: Music gives soul to the universe

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."
- Plato
"One ought, every day at least,
to bear a little song,
read a good poem,
see a fine picture,
and, if possible,
speak a few reasonable words."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
 

The Universe Is Smiling: Conscience is the inner voice

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking."
- Henry Louis Mencken  

The Universe Is Smiling: Follow Your Own Path

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
 
A: "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."
- Henry David Thoreau    

The Universe Is Smiling: Live Your Passion!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you."
- Oprah Winfrey
"The energy of the mind is the essence of life."
- Aristotle