You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's the only thing you are sure to keep for the rest of your life. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life on planet earth. Every person or incident is the Universal Teacher. There are no mistakes, only lessons.
Growth is a process of experimentation.
A lesson is repeated until learned. It is presented to you in various forms until you learn it - then you can go to the next lesson. If you don't learn easy lessons, they get harder. External problems are a precise reflection of your internal state. When you clear inner obstructions, your outside world changes.