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 

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