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Can the moral of one anecdote hurt the heart of another?

When we see only one facet of a story, we create division; but when we embrace the whole, the apparent conflicts dissolve into unity.

— Osho
According to Osho, any ‘hurt’ between morals arises from our misunderstanding, not from the anecdotes themselves. In his vision, the stories cohere; he points to a unifying thread. Parables have many facets, and when we fixate on a different facet than the one emphasized, we may imagine contradiction or injury. See the whole, and the apparent conflict dissolves.

The stories don’t hurt each other—only our way of looking makes them seem to clash.