Beatitudes?

To explain all the mysteries of life is not my privilege. I have sought and found much light, and know that the mortal whose earthly life was perfectly free from care and unclouded with any evil surroundings does not enter into the fullness of the spiritual light, as readily as the less fortunate, whose life had been lived in toil and poverty. The secret of this may be hidden within the lesser inheritor of heavenly riches. 

There seems to be elements in the human heart and mind, which can only be aroused by hard work and sorrow either for material help or in efforts to help the less fortunate bear their burdens.

The sorrows of earthly life are not burdens when the light of heavenly love penetrates the true intelligence.

—Robert G. Ingersoll in Spirit