This takeaway from your third misused spiritual saying reminds me of another spiritual prompt I issued which I just answered myself not too long ago in https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/the-human-spirit-duality-e456c0729e99 . To the question of are we spirits seeking human / material experience or humans seeking spiritual experience, most readers had answered the former. I wrote, "We are simultaneously and inseparably both." I went on to say, "Recently I had this realization about the human-soul duality — the goals of the human and the goals of the soul may be, from the human perspective, irreconcilable. Humans want nothing but happiness but perhaps the soul came here to experience the opposite so that it can learn to guide other humans when it is not incarnated and is assigned as a spirit guide or to some other work in heaven."