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What is the theme of this drawing? 
Join in on the fun and find the THEME & a QUOTE that matches the drawing. The winner of the most convincing entry will win a print of this drawing, mounted on a 6" x 6" art block, ready to hang and with YOUR quote written on the back.
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The challenge ends on Wednesday 6 at 12:00pm ET.

I look forward to your comments :)

The Universe Is Smiling: "Reverie"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Spend time with reverie and listen to your inner voice - joyfully :)"

"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul."
 - Gaston Bachelard
"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Attention"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Pay attention - and enjoy the day :)"

"It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart."
 - Oscar Wilde
"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."
- Richard Moss
.... and a funny quote :)
"Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
- Albert Einstein

The Universe Is Smiling: "Connection"

Happy Valentine's Day! Enjoy being alive and make it a special day for you with a smile :)

"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside, it, under it and over it."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and thy must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
- Anais Nin

The Universe Is Smiling: "Transmutation"

Happy WATER-SNAKE year!

SNAKE = Transmutation

"...The power of snake medicine is the power of creation, for it embodies sexuality, psychic energy, alchemy, reproduction, and ascension (or immortality).
The transmutation of the life-death-rebirth cycle is exemplified by the shedding of Snake's skin. It is the energy of wholeness, cosmic consciousness, and the ability to experience anything willingly and without resistance. It is the knowledge that all things are equal in creation, and that those things which might be experienced as poiison can be eaten, ingested, integrated, and transmuted if one has the proper state of mind....
 This medicine teaches you on a personal level that you are a universal being. Through accepting all aspects of your life, you can bring about the transmutation of the fire medicine. This fire energy, when functioning on the material plane, creates passion, desire, procreation, and physical vitality. On the emotional plane, it becomes ambition, creation, resolution, and dreams. On the mental plane it becomes intellect, power, charisma, and leadership. When this snake energy reaches the spiritual plane, it becomes wisdom, understanding, wholeness, and connection to the Great Spirit...."
From "Medicine Cards. The Discovery of Power Through The Ways Of Animals." by Jamie Sams & David Carson.

The Universe Is Smiling: "The Key"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "You hold the key to your own happiness."

"All our lives we live in chains and never even know we hold the key."
 - The Eagles
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
 - Epictetus
"Man's mind is a watch that needs winding daily."
- Welsh Proverb  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Dreams"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Listen to your dreams!"

"Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams."
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Dreams are illustrations ... from the book your soul is writing about you."
 - Marsha Norman
"Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live."
- Henry David Thoreau 
 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Yin-Yang of Life"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Keep your balance in the yin-yang of life!"

"We are the yin and yang of the creative process."
 - Cynthia Weil
"It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another... We must begin by doing away with this convention." 
- Martin Buber

The Universe Is Smiling: "Holding"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
Drawing's Answer: Who is holding whom? :)

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go."
 - Hermann Hesse
"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself."
- Leo F. Buscaglia 
 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Contentment"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Contentment brings peace of mind.

"We tend to forget that contentment doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

- Friedrich Koenig

"... Restlessness ... is always a sign of not finding joy in what's here. ... That's what restlessness is, going around looking for something else to do, something else to think about, somewhere else to go - anywhere but here and now. ... Contentment is the opposite of a faultfinding mind. .... Contentment looks for what is right, and it can keep you still. But restlessness will always make you a slave. ... That tyrant is the faultfinding mind. Subdue this tyrant through contentment. ..."

"Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond" by Ajahn Brahm, pp.43-45