The Universe Is Smiling: Secret of Happiness

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
 A: "The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage."
- Thucydides
"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves."
- Friedrich Nietzsche    

The Universe Is Smiling: Memories are Dreams at Daytime

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
 
A: You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
- George Bernhard Shaw 

The Universe Is Smiling: Risk anything!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
 
A: "Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."
-Katherine Mansfield

The Universe Is Smiling: Let it all hang out

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What to do today?
 
A: Let it all hang out! It's summertime.

The Universe Is Smiling: Broadening One's Horizon

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's healing power?
A: Seeing reality clearly and uniting one's personal will with cosmic purpose. Even though life may be hard and tedious at the moment, heart and mind are open to great possibilities. 

The Universe Is Smiling: Friendship

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Strangers are just friends waiting to happen."
- Rod McKuen  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Where will you go...?"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
 
A: "I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of."
- Michel de Montaigne
"If you do not get it from yourself,
Where will you go for it?"
- Zen saying   

The Universe Is Smiling: Praise

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise."
- Mary Kay Ash  

The Universe Is Smiling: Trust Yourself!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?
 
A: "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, is the greatest accomplishment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson    
"Your mind is a garden,
Your thoughts are seeds,
The harvest can be either flowers or weeds."
- Author Unknown

The Universe Is Smiling: "I am Awake"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's message on this auspicious day of Chokhor Duchen, the first time the Buddha taught after attaining enlightenment?
A: One of his students asked Buddha, "Are you the messiah?"
"No", answered the Buddha.
"Then are you a healer?"
"No", Buddha replied.
"Then are you a teacher?" the student persisted.
"No, I am not a teacher."
"Then what are you?" asked the student, exasperated.
"I am awake", Buddha replied.