The Universe Is Smiling: "Comfort Zone"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is the wisdom of this week?
A: Stretch yourself a bit and get out of your comfort zone!

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
- Neale Donald Walsh
"If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness."
- Les Brown 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Zen Story"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

 Mr. Mouse, a wise teacher was telling a Zen story to his student, the cat:
"One day while walking through the wilderness a man stumbled upon a vicious tiger. He ran but soon came to the edge of a high cliff. Desperate to save himself, he climbed down a vine and dangled over the fatal precipice.
As he hung there, two mice appeared from a hole in the cliff and began gnawing on the vine.
 Suddenly he noticed on the vine a plum wild strawberry. He plucked it and popped it in his mouth. It was incredibly delicious!"
"What do you think," said the mouse, "is this story teaching us?"
The cat is still pondering the question and if you can come up with the answer (there may be more than one) let her know and write a comment.

The Universe Is Smiling: "Openness"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Be open and don't worry!

"Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
"I always say be humble but be firm. Humility and openness are the key to success without compromising your beliefs."
- George Hickenlooper 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Connection"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: We are all connected.

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."
- John Muir
"We seek not rest but transformation. We are dancing though each other as doorways."
- Marge Piercy  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Stepping Out"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Dare to step out of your comfort zone - with a smile :)

"Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie."
 - Herbie Hancock
"Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience."
- Masaru Ibuka  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Love"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
"All you need is Love. Love is all you need..."
- John Lennon & Paul McCartney

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
- Thomas Carlyle
"I love you not because of who your are, but because who I am when I am with you."
- Roy Croft

The Universe Is Smiling: "Summer"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
How are YOU spending your summer?

 

"Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability."

- Sam Keen
"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world."
- Ada Louise Huxtable 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Listening"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings: 
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Listen to the sound of your inner voice :)

"There is something in everyone of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls."
- Howard Thurman 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Saying Hello"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Say "hello" to a friend and make it a meaningful day!

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days, an old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."
- Dalai Lama  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Fantasy"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Ruminate and imagine - making the impossible possible.

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." 
- Dr. Seuss