Anything “bad” that happens in your life - use it for enlightenment

Anything “bad” that happens in your life - use it for enlightenment. Withdraw time from the illness. Do not give it any past or future. Let it force you into intense present-moment awareness - and see what happens. Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment