Spiritual foundation?

Life on earth is very short.

Each stage of development reached depends on the individual only, and not on outward circumstances.

The very best work you can do on earth is to permit each little child to work out its own destiny.

Give it only a few simple rules of virtue and honesty, with the fundamental of love God above all things, and your neighbour as yourself.

Love God above all things, and your neighbour as yourself contains the whole law.

If these are learned, there will be an ennobling and simplifying of life in all its expressions, and liberation of the spirit, fitting it better to leave its earthly environment in tranquil faith, ready to go on untrammelled in its future evolutions.