"Ignorance is like a fever..."

Ignorance is like a fever—it makes you see things which are not there. Karma is the divinely prescribed treatment. Welcome it and follow the instructions faithfully and you will get well. A patient will leave the hospital only after he recovers. To insist on immediate freedom of choice and action would merely postpone recovery. Accept your destiny and fulfill it—this is the shortest way to freedom from destiny, though not from love and its compulsions. To act from desire and fear is bondage, to act from love is freedom.

Nisargadatta, from I AM THAT pg. 426.