According to Osho, you compromise because you are unsure of your own lived truth; your position is a secondhand idea held by the mind, not a direct experience. When truth is experienced, it is indivisible and nonnegotiable—like a mother refusing to cut her child. Real knowing brings totality; only borrowed beliefs barter and break. Compromises create dead halves; authenticity chooses wholeness over safety.
You keep compromising because you don’t truly know from your own experience—once something is real for you, you stop bargaining about it.