"Master, " said Mei Ling, "why all this hammering on the singularity of truth?"
"You see this egg, young man? It is true that it is an egg. Now, imagine what in all the world is 'not-egg', how many things do you find to be so?"
"Untold quantities of things Master."
"It is because of truth. Truth is singular, untruth is just
such a vast quantity or multitude as anyone is able to imagine.
Just like the egg. The lesson from this is the following. When
Gautama, or, 1000 miles further, Confucius or Lao Tse, or, again
further a Socrates or whoever, said a True Word, it is not surprising that
they all are identical with Seneca, Epictetus, Aurelius and Cicero. There is
only one Way, you see! The Way is the
sum total of all True Words, Tao-Stoics is: 'living according to
all True Words', is living in the harmony of the Way." [2], [31],
[35]