A spiritual discipline is similar but different. It’s similar in that it’s “any activity I can do by direct effort that will eventually enable me to do that which, currently, I cannot do by direct effort.” It’s a way to access power. But it’s different in that not only are you exercising your own capacity to do the right thing (what we call willpower), but you are also opening yourself up to a power far beyond your own—that of the Holy Spirit. You are creating time and space to access God himself at the deepest level of your being.
