Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Gandhi cuts against our instinct to equate harmony with health. Most of us flinch from disagreement—we assume it signals failure, broken relationships, or flawed thinking. But he's pointing to something subtler: that genuine progress requires friction between honest people, each willing to be changed by the encounter. When your doctor disagrees with your self-diagnosis, or your teenager questions your reasoning rather than simply obeying, those moments of friction often mean someone cares enough to think critically rather than merely comply.
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