[Miss Hepburn]

Originally Posted by Xavier Perez-Pons

According to the ancient sages of all religions, and even those who
did not adhere to any religion (as the great sages of the Renaissance for example) or those who professed their
religion in their own way (heterodox as John Scotus Erigena, Ibn Hazm or rabbi Josef Gikatiglia),
life is something
like a school where we are progressing
by degrees (in general the ancient sages believed in reincarnation).
Life after life we ​​are evolving spiritually. What sometimes involves painful lives, because suffering is
the touchstone of spiritual progress. That's why we go down to this world.

Because in our true home (where we are before we were born and where we returned after dying) there is no pain or suffering, and, as a medieval mystic said,
"If you do not suffer, you do not grow." Suppose you are a selfish soul and that, in your current life, you keep all the money of an inheritance for yourself without sharing
it with your poorest brothers. In your next life you will reincarnate in a beggar, because only by experiencing in yourself the pain of going hungry, will you learn the lesson of sharing.
if in the spiritual world you come from you would have been given a “weekly class”
about the importance of sharing,
it would not have been the same: you would have easily forgotten that lesson (in the same way that
I have forgotten the mathematics taught to me at school). However, after a life of deprivation,
I assure you that the lesson will be well recorded.

Great post.
Changed the format because I want to be able to read your things!