Rajneesh Quotes

I've always been about the balance - not sacrificing one thing for the other and not being an extremist.

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

I think that anything in life is about the middle ground.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.

I've found that balance is key. I'm no longer an extremist in any one direction.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Everything in life... has to have balance.

Balance is key. Balance is a virtue. Balance is next to godliness, maybe. We should all aspire to better balance. Too much of what is said in this world is one-sided, and we need more balance - in our speech, in our music, in our art, in everything.

The solution, as always, is a union of the half truths drawn from the extremes

Balance isn't either/or; it's 'and'.

I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.

So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

They don't have to choose either/or. They can have their cake and mutilate it too.

Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

Extremes can be right on no side.

I believe in a balanced government. I don't believe in minimum or maximum. Balance is always the best way.

As a reader and a writer, I'm happiest when apparently mutually exclusive states can somehow coexist.

In my experience, it's common that deep truths exist at both extremes of a dialectic, and the wisest stance on an issue will incorporate 'both of the opposites within itself.'