From "Invitation To A Journey"

by M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

...spiritual formation as "being conformed" brings its own spiritual work into our objectivizing, informational-functional, instant-gratification modes of being and doing. The first work of transformation is the reversal of these deeply ingrained and powerfully controlling dynamics of our cultural shaping. This means that our spiritual journey is not our setting out (by gathering information and applying it correctly) to find God (as an object "out there" to be grasped and controlled by us). It is a journey of learning to yield ourselves to God and discovering where God will take us.