Living the Christian faith comes down to these three ways of life: prayer, humility, and obedience. No matter who you are or where you come from, if you truly want to be a committed and faithful Christian: (1) you must spend some serious time engaged in vocal prayer (both privately and with the community in divine liturgy), meditative prayer, and contemplative prayer; (2) you must become deeply humble, which means setting aside your gargantuan ego and worldly ambitions to listen to God; and (3) you must be obedient to God first and always, which means you must develop the courage to follow where He leads you.
To accomplish any of these things, however, you must learn to be silent and still.