“Imaginary solutions work quite well, as long as you realize that problems are also imaginary.”
Source: There and Back Again (1999), Chapter 15 (p. 259)
“The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 127
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