The Universe Is Smiling: "Connectedness"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: You are not alone. You are connected with all beings.

"We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results."
 - Herman Melville
"Without fear, we are able to see more clearly our connections to others.Without fear, we have more room for understanding and compassion. Without fear, we are truly free."
- Thich Nath Hanh

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: "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: "Curiosity"

Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Stay curious - and make someone smile.

"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."
 - Samuel Johnson
"Love is three quarters of curiosity."
- Giacomo Casanova
"Judge a person by their questions rather than by their answers."
- Voltaire

The Universe Is Smiling: "Conversation"

Q: "What is today's wisdom?"
A: "Get your inspiration through silence and good conversation."

 "A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of book."
 - Chinese Proverb
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Universe Is Smiling: "Relax and trust in the Greater Good!"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's insight?
A: Relax and trust in the Greater Good :)

"Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason."
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted."
- Lao Tzu  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Opportunity"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Dare to go for the opportunity!

"The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity."

- Victor Hugo

The Universe Is Smiling: Happiness

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."

- Maxim Gorky

"Nothing can bring you happiness but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson    

The Universe Is Smiling: Pillow Talk

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful."

- Drew Barrymore  

The Universe Is Smiling: Enthusiasm

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."

- Bo Bennett    

The Universe Is Smiling: Let's go!

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Life loves to be taken by the lapel and be told: 'I am with you kid. Let's go.'"

- Maya Angelou  

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