You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.
‘Liberation’ is freedom from the illusion of ego and the futility of grasping for its demands. It is the acceptance of the essence of who we are and a return to our ‘natural’ Self.
Vernon Sankey
30th August 2020
Who Are You Really? featuring Vernon Sankey on the ‘Leadership is Changing’ Podcast.
Out now, Episode 31 of the Leadership is Changing podcast featuring Vernon Sankey as he discussed with host Denis Gianoutsos 'Who Are You Really'?
Vernon Sankey
29th August 2020
We are never so lost that angels can’t find us.
During these difficult times, when there is uncertainty, suffering, anxiety and fear, just remember that we are connected to each other and to the universe in Oneness.
Vernon Sankey
27th August 2020
We spend too much time ‘Doing’ and too little just ‘Being’.
As a result, we fill the day with frantic activity, anxious about tomorrow, always trying to ‘get somewhere’ and fearful that something will go wrong: so we worry about that too ...
Vernon Sankey
24th August 2020
Most of us don’t believe that life will ever get any better, so it doesn’t. Some believe it will continue to get better, so it does.
In these troubled times, when the world seems to be in complete chaos and it is difficult to reconcile ourselves with what is happening, evil seems to be everywhere and it is easy to give up hope.
Vernon Sankey
21st August 2020
In a world where everyone wears a mask, it’s a privilege to see a soul.
With Covid19 we are all wearing an external mask. It hides our face apart from our eyes. Does that make us more or less ‘transparent’ to others? Is our ‘persona’ more or less obvious?
Vernon Sankey
19th August 2020
Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Kindness is not weakness but strength. Kindness is gentle, accepting, tolerant and respectful. In its spontaneity, it is without ego. Being without ego makes it divine. It is a pathway to inner peace ...
Vernon Sankey
16th August 2020
I didn’t change. I just woke up.
The yang and yin symbol in the picture represents the duality of life. Up and down, high and low, in and out, life and death, masculine and feminine, front and back and so on. These ‘opposites’ or ‘polarities’ are different in nature and seemingly opposite but they are in fact complementary, interdependent and interconnected. They cannot exist without each other. They are part of the same Oneness.
Vernon Sankey
14th August 2020
What, you may ask, has an egg got to do with the planets and the universe?
This imaginative picture is a creative reflection of the idea that the whole cosmos is implicit in every part of it.
Vernon Sankey
13th August 2020
‘When people see some things as beautiful, other things become ugly; When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and non-being create each other. Difficult and easy support each other. Long and short define each other. High and Low depend on each other. Before and after follow each other.’ – Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching
Strength and weakness, fear and courage, wisdom and foolishness are extrinsically different but intrinsically inseparable. The one implies the other.
Vernon Sankey
11th August 2020
A wise teacher once brought balloons to school, told her pupils to blow them up and write their name on one.
After the children tossed their balloons into the hall, the teacher moved through the hall mixing them all up ...
Vernon Sankey
10th August 2020
Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.
As the butterfly comes to the welcoming hand, the awakened sage says: ‘I know not’ ... Awakening begins by understanding what it is not ...
Vernon Sankey
9th August 2020