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: "Travel"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Travel your world with a smile :)

"It is better to travel well than to arrive."
- Buddha
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Universe Is Smiling: "Protection"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: You are protected. It's only a matter of trust.

"The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days."
 - Lao Tzu
"If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital; satisfaction with just enough  food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself form the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation."
- Dalai Lama

The Universe Is Smiling: "Blessing"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Blessings are around us. Let's have the clarity to recognize them.

"You never know where a blessing can come from."
 - Teena Marie
"Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is the seed."
- Muriel Rukeyser

The Universe Is Smiling: "Musing"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Take some time musing.

"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation."
- Walter Bagehot
"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."
- Desiderius Erasmus

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: "Poetry"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Find the poetry in every day :)

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."
 - Robert Frost
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
- T.S. Eliot
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
- Socrates

The Universe Is Smiling: "Cloudmaker"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: We are such cloudmakers. See the sunshine beyond the clouds? Doesn't it make you smile?!

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
- Maya Angelou
"A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed... It feels an impulsion, this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons."
- Richard Bach

The Universe Is Smiling: "Transformation"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Even if we might dream of being someone or something else, we are perfect the way we are.

"First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination."
- Napoleon Hill
"Transformation literally means going beyond your form."
- Wayne Dyer