Reform:
My point was that you don’t really need to be machria a statement in a musar/philosophy sefer with a point in halachah. You could just conclude that Rebbe Nachman didn’t really mean “always,” or frankly just ignore the contradiction.
It’s quite common for musar sforim to state things that are not really meakev. I used to call musar shiur the wild wild west because the Rabbi can make any kind of statement about something being “assur” without any proofs from the gemara or S”A. The point is that it’s “ethics” not halachah.