The essential meaning of a spiritual practice is something you can and will continue to do, long enough and attentively enough that you get to know yourself through your relationship to it. Spiritual practice carries you into knowing yourself in detail — your quirks and stubbornnesses and virtues. It also carries you into your larger self (called true nature by Buddhists, called God my some others), into something vast and alive and joyful, into the source of everything beyond words. Practice takes you not into intellectual knowledge but into experience itself.
— Janet Cedar Spring, Take Up Your Life