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I could not agree more. If we want to improve spiritually, emotionally, intellectually then we have much to learn from those who are deemed "misfortunate." Nothing is more cleansing of the soul than to spend some time just being a friend to one who has been a victim of a crime or who was born physically or mentally challenged. It is then that I myself learn my own shortcomings. It is then that I learn how far I still have to go.

That to me is the spiritual passage that works. And I don't have to die and reincarnate to do it. I can move forward in this lifetime, thanks to my teachers, who are not cursed by karmas of past lives, but bless us in this life.