The Universe Is Smiling: "Saying Hello"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Say "hello" to a friend and make it a meaningful day!

"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days, an old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."
- Dalai Lama  

The Universe Is Smiling: "Embrace"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Embrace all living creatures ..."

"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
- Albert Einstein

The Universe Is Smiling: "Playfulness"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: Play and be joyful :)

"It is a requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes."
- Thomas Aquinas
"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature."
- Tom Robbins 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Guidance"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:
Q: What is today's wisdom?
A: "Follow your inner guidance - with a smile."

"Let your heart guide you. It whispers softly, so listen closely."
- Anonymous
"By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life."
- Thomas More (English Humanist 1478 - 1535) 

The Universe Is Smiling: "Connection"

Happy Valentine's Day! Enjoy being alive and make it a special day for you with a smile :)

"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside, it, under it and over it."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and thy must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
- Anais Nin

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 Universe Is Smiling: "Spring Spirits"

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: Nature spirits are weaving the fabric of spring: Enjoy!

"My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory. the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipation and joy.

- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star; it is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us."

- John Ruskin  

The Universe Is Smiling: Simple Philosophy

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."

- Buddha

"I have a simple philosophy: Fill what is empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches."

- Alice Longworth Roosevelt    

The Universe Is Smiling: Our Beloved Nature

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

- John Muir

The Universe Is Smiling: Astonishment

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible."

- Eugene Ionesco

"Astonishment is the root of philosophy."

- Paul Tillich

The Universe Is Smiling: Simple and Clear

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

- Leonardo DaVinci

"Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature."

- Thomas Kempis 

The Universe Is Smiling: Smile

Monika's weekly inner voice drawings:

Q: What is today's wisdom?

A: "Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace."

- Thich Nhat Hanh    

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