The Universe Is Smiling: "Dance"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Dance with your heart! :)
"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another."
- Author unknown
"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking."
- Agnes de Mille  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Autumn"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Today is the beginning of autumn. May your life be as precious and colorful as this season, and may this season bring you beauty in abundance! :)

"Autumn is like a second spring when every leaf is a flower" 
- Albert Camus

The Universe Is Smiling: "Learning"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

 A: "Learning happens: earth & star nations communicate"

"Let us not look back in a anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."

 - James Thurber

"One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching."

- Gerard Way 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Support"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Support comes in many forms"

"Support your friends - even in their mistakes. But be clear, however, that it is the friend and not the mistake you are supporting."

- Hugh Prather

"A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are."

- Source unknown  

 

The Universe Is Smiling: "A Matter of Style"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Know your style and live it joyfully :)

"On matter of style swim with the current, on matter of principle, stand like a rock."

 - Thomas Jefferson

"Only great minds can afford a simple style."

 - Stendhal

"Fashions fade, style is eternal."

-Yves Saint Laurant  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Creation & Imagination"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Create a joyful life, one day at a time :)

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what you will."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

- Berthold Auerbach

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

- Bono  

The Casual Observer: "Lift Your Head!"

More observations from my trip to Cologne, Germany:

Imagine you're walking down an unknown street. You have your eyes on the ground to not trip over some unexpected daxen dog or goblins and suddenly you stumble upon a sign on the ground that says in big letters:

BLICK HEBEN = Lift Your Head!

 

Wouldn't you also lift your head immediately,  wondering what to expect? :)

In this case, it was the beauty of an old basilica .

 

However, after that I kept lifting my head and saw ....

life size mannequins .... in permanent freeze .... :)

 

elegant lady in red

elegant lady waiting for her mannequin mate

young man fishing in the air

You never know what you'll find when you lift your head.

What do you see, when you look up from your daily routine?

I would love to know :)

The Universe Is Smiling: "CARING"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

 A: By caring for nature, we take care of ourselves.

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

- Leo Buscaglia

"When the road gets dark

And you can no longer see

Just let my love throw a spark

And have a little faith in me."

- John Hiatt

The Casual Observer: Finding the Buddha

Dear Visitors,

I am back from a three week stay in Cologne, Germany, and I am also back for regular postings of  drawings and observations. Let's start with this one image of a 12th century Maria, photographed at an exhibition at the Kolumba. I was struck how the shadow of the figure resembled a silhouette of a meditating Buddha. The Buddha is everywhere :)

"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything."
- Shunrya Suzuki
"Cultivation of tolerance for other faiths will impart to us a truer understanding of our own."
- Mahatma Gandhi

The Universe Is Smiling: "Rhythm"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Live your rhythm with a smile :)

"To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? - Michael Jackson

"Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction." - Kabbalah