Live better, help often, wonder more is the motto and functionally the entire ethic, and the charter around it is short: the Assembly is radically inclusive, has no doctrine, has no set texts so that it can draw wisdom from any source, and is free to attend with nobody turned away. The absence of doctrine is a positive commitment rather than an oversight, and it is enforced — chapters operate under charter guidance rather than under a creed. The cost shows up whenever anyone wants the Assembly to take a position on a political or moral question, because the constitution gives it no way to have one. Supporters regard this as the reason a Muslim, a Catholic and an atheist can sit in the same row; critics regard it as the reason nobody is required to come back.