"Just do it."
(with apologies to a certain sneaker company)
Pop quiz:
Q. What do you call someone who goes around telling folks how important it is to believe in Christ, or how much Eastern philosophy he reads, or what an important part of his life community service is, but then he acts like a complete JERK whenever anyone wants anything from him?
A. A hypocrite. 		Jonathan Cook
The first questions of the spiritual search are "why" questions:
"Why should I be 'searching' for anything?"

"Why should I be asking questions, or reading, or working?"

"Can I even be sure there's anything more out there to find?"

"Why should I move towards things that scare me, when I'm perfectly content where I am?"

With these questions, you either decide there's a worthwhile reason to embark on a spiritual path, or you give up, and go back to watching SportsCenter 24-7, or you start asking "how"questions.

(SKS tenet: Spiritual work, like science, would be a really silly pursuit if there were no practical application. You don't read the Bible or Rumi or the Dhammapada for fun—you read it to CHANGE THE WAY YOU LIVE.)

Start asking how questions, like "how do I become a better person?" "How do I have a true attitude of gratitude, service, and humility?" "How should I be living my life?"

But don't ever stop asking why, or collecting data, either. To paraphrase Georges Gurdjieff:

"Knowledge without Being is only a weak yogi. Being without Knowledge is only a stupid saint."

(SKS tenet: Read a lot. Think a lot. Meditate, write, go to workshops, analyze your dreams—but don't get so caught up in it that you forget that the end goal is BECOMING that which you are studying. Learn to have both Knowledge and Being.)

And that's what the SKS is all about.