Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The Universe Is Smiling: Looking beyond imperfections
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you have decided to look beyond the imperfections."
- unknown author
The Universe Is Smiling: Love forever!
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
I wanted to draw a "love message for a special someone". In good Inner Voice Drawing fashion I didn't plan the drawing but surrendered to my intuition and let it happen. I wasn't prepared to see a shaggy "kangaroo-dog" appear as a love messenger, but he made me smile. He clearly is from another planet, so the message must be universal :)
"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."
- John Lennon
"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."
- Henry Drummond
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- Lao Tzu
- John Lennon
"To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever."
- Henry Drummond
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
- Lao Tzu
The Universe Is Smiling: Determination
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination."
- Tommy Lasarda
"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you."
- Denis Waitley
The Universe Is Smiling: Let's rise above our shadows!
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see."
- Martin Luther King
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
- Helen Keller
The Universe Is Smiling: What direction are you moving to?
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"I you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
- Lao Tzu
The Universe Is Smiling: Dare to be yourself!
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: "Tell me, what is it that you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
- Mary Oliver
A: "Don't dare to be different, dare to be yourself. If that doesn't make you different then something is wrong."
- Wilferd A. Peterson
The Universe Is Smiling: We are colorful threads of a rich tapestry
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color."
- Maya Angelou
"When you find peace within yourself, you become the person who can live at peace with others."
- Peace Pilgrim
The Universe Is Smiling: Drop the protective shield
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "For an impenetrable shield, stand inside yourself."
- Henri David Thoreau
The Universe Is Smiling: You can conquer almost any fear...
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind."
- Dale Carnegie
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
- Les Brown
The Universe Is Smiling: I have never been a serious person ....
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "I have never been a serious person... I am not serious at all because existence is not serious. It is so playful, so full of song and so full of music and so full of subtle laughter. It has no purpose; it is not business-like. It is pure joy, sheer dance, out of overflowing energy."
- Bhagvan Shree Rajneesh
"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."
- Leo Buscaglia
The Universe Is Smiling: Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry...
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Listen to what you know instead of what you fear."
- Richard Bach
"Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The Universe Is Smiling: Worth knowing
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A:"Worry not that no one knows of you;
Seek to be worth knowing."
- Confucius
The Universe Is Smiling: Throw your dreams into space like a kite ...
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
- Anais Nin
"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space, everything else is opinion."
- Democritus
The Universe Is Smiling: Leave yourself behind
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "What do you have to do?
Pack your bags,
Go to the station without them,
Catch the train,
And leave yourself behind."
- from 'Open Secret' by Wei Wu Wei
The Universe Is Smiling: Beyond Doubt & Judgment
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. You can see forever."
- Nancy Kerrigan (scater)
The Universe Is Smiling: Amazing!
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"When in doubt, don't.
- Benjamin Franklin
"When in doubt, don't.
- Benjamin Franklin
The Universe Is Smiling: Daily Wisdom
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy."
- Lao Tzu
The Universe Is Smiling: We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What's today's wisdom?
A: "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in."
- Morrie Schwartz
The Universe Is Smiling: If you want to make your dreams come true, ...
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."
- J.M. Powers
"Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire."
- Arnold H. Glasow
The Universe Is Smiling: Window to the Soul
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The Universe Is Smiling: Self-Love
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: Talking with friends and clients, the issue of "self-love" or the lack of it has come up as a frequent topic lately. How to love yourself if you don't recognize your divine beauty; and how to recognize your divine beauty, if you don't love yourself? A perfect conundrum for an Inner Voice Drawing question, and so I asked:
"How to attain self-love?"
A: "Develop the inner vision and the habit of listening to the inner voice; and you are assured of unshakable peace and infinite joy."
- Atharva Veda
"God makes three requests of his children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now."
- African-American Proverb
The Universe Is Smiling: Confidence never comes from having all the answers ...
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is confidence?
A: "Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers, it comes from being open to all the questions."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus
The Universe Is Smiling: Love Is The Bridge
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge."
- Stephen Levine
The Universe Is Smiling: Three Methods to Learn Wisdom
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter."
- Confucius
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.
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.
"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.
The Universe Is Smiling: Saving the World
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the news about man made environmental disasters, like the gulf spill, fracking, nuclear waste, etc., I asked:
Q: How to save the world?
A: Don't desert your boat of life by giving into the fear like a frightened rabbit. Balance your "life boat": observe, speak up when necessary, keep heart, strengthen your inner core, and don't forget to smile. The combination of wisdom and humor will go a long way :)
The Universe Is Smiling: Simplicity
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."
- Lin Yutang
"Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
- Lao Tzu
The Universe Is Smiling: Attitude of Happiness
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
- Maya Angelou
"The trick is what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same."
- Carlos Castaneda
The Universe Is Smiling: Dancing in a Complex World :)
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Keep dancing in a complex world :)
The Universe Is Smiling: It is time for us to kiss the earth again ...
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "A little too abstract, a little too wise,
It is time for us to kiss the earth again,
It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies,
Let the rich life run to the roots again."
- Robinson Jeffers
It is time for us to kiss the earth again,
It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies,
Let the rich life run to the roots again."
- Robinson Jeffers
The Universe Is Smiling: Environment & Responsibility
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What on earth is happening (oil spill etc.)?
A: "If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves."
- Gaylord Nelson
The Universe Is Smiling: Give Birth to Your Images
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "You must give birth to your images.
They are the future waiting to be born.
Fear not the strangeness you feel.
The future must enter you long before it happens.
Just wait for the birth,
For the hour of new clarity."
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The Universe Is Smiling: Facing the Storm
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: No matter what the case,
keep your faith and pace.
"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Universe Is Smiling: Art of Life
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is the art of life?
A: "Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art"
- Leonardo da Vinci
" Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes, your easy smile is your museum."
- Anselm Adams
The Universe Is Smiling: Teeter Totter of Time
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Dear Followers, I am overdue with posting a drawing, because I spent every minute this week tweaking my website for the visibility on different browsers and I am still not done yet. So, I was about to put the drawing off for another day, but my "inner voice" said:
Come on now! Don't be so serious. Keep it simple. You can balance the teeter totter of time - and so can YOU :)
And here is the perfect quote for the day:
"I vow to let go of all worries and anxiety in order to be light and free"
- Thich Nhat Hanh
The Universe Is Smiling: Gratitude
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Having received so many signs of love on my birthday, I asked:
What is this day about?
A: Gratitude, of course!
Thank you, thank you. May those signs of love return to you manifold.
The Universe is Smiling: Bite Size Morsels
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Bite size morsels - give everything enough space, little by little, and the whole will become clear.
The Universe is Smiling: Being Cool
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Be cool like a cucumber :)
The Universe is Smiling: About the World
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: How to deal with all the disasters in the world on a personal basis?
A: Every individual is a part of the whole. Be your best wherever you are and the whole will benefit.
The Universe is Smiling: Play :)
Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Let all troubles roll of your back and play :)
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