There is a very old spiritual law that says that you can have absolutely anything you want—but you must know how to ask for it, you must want it more than you want anything else, and nothing must be allowed to stand in its way.
This is literally true.
This is literally false. There is no amount of wanting or knowing how to ask that will allow me to travel back in time, or make a right triangle where all the sides have equal length.
This is literally false. There is no amount of wanting or knowing how to ask that will allow me to travel back in time, or make a right triangle where all the sides have equal length.
One vertex is at the north pole; the other two are on the equator. (We are in spherical geometry.)