What is the essential spiritual practice? Listening. God is forever whispering truth into your ears, and all you have to do is listen. It sounds very easy and it is; but its very simplicity is what keeps it hidden from us. Listening requires no mastery of postures or doctrine. It doesn't require us to affiliate with any group. It can be done alone and in community. It needs no special instruction or master instructor. One just listens.
— Rami Shapiro, Hasidic Tales