The goal of all spiritual life is to get your ego out of the way - outwit the sucker; dissolve it; shoot it; kill it. Silence the incessant planning, organizing, running, manipulating, possessing, and processing"... "because these activities preclude awareness of the Divine.
I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego (ed. Jewish Lights Publishing, 2010) - ISBN: 9781580234412