St Paul writes, I shall destroy the wisdom of the wise.
And bring to nothing all the learning of the learned.
I have been too wedded to material ties.
I realise now my own spiritual path has meandered.

It’s not through learning.
It’s not by reading.
It’s not achieved by surviving.
You don’t get there by attending.

It’s by imitating.
By one’s own life basing.
On one man’s teaching.
Who two thousand years now was walking.

Imitation is one form of spiritual flattery.
To attempt this imitation is one way to recharge an exhausted spiritual battery.