Middle Path Quotes

• The middle path is the way to wisdom

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Way

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• Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for "the union of opposites through the middle path", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao.

  Carl Jung

  Opposites, Names, Chinese

  Carl Gustav Jung, Richard Francis Carrington Hull (1992). “Two Essays on Analytical Psychology”, p.205, Psychology Press

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• The Buddha's message was simple but profound. Neither a life of self-indulgence nor one of self-mortification can bring happiness. Only a middle path, avoiding these two extremes, leads to peace of mind, wisdom, & complete liberation from the dissatisfactions of life.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Simple, Two, Self

  Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be over complacent or too feverish, take a middle path.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Inspiring, Complacent, Path

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• Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

  Ovid

  Path, Moderation, Middle

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• All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.

  Mohammed Omar

  Two, Excess, Conservatism

  "Omar: 'Our plan is the destruction of America'". BBC World Service Interview, www.independent.co.uk. November 16, 2001.

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• The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Creativity, Diversity, Making Love

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• Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.

  Ian Niall

  Dog, People, Giving

  Ian Niall (1976). “One man and his dogs”, William Morrow &Company

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• However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Men, Evil, May

  Wilhelm von Humboldt (2008). “The Limits of State Action”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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• There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

  Frederick C. Beiser

  Religious, Common Sense, Belief

  "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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