The Seven Points of Mind Training

The obstacle is the way

Echoes, per a summary

Wikipedia gives slogan 11 as saying that “when the world is filled with evil”, “all mishaps” are to be turned “into the path of bodhi”. The terms are Buddhist, and no one is credited.

1. c. 170 to 180 CE

   “for the mind converts and changes every hindrance to its activity into an aid; and so that which is a hindrance is made a furtherance to an act; and that which is an obstacle on the road helps us on this road.”

   Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. Earliest we can find, about 980 years earlier.

2. 12th century

   “When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of bodhi.”