There is spirituality that a person makes for himself, meaning that he depicts to himself for what he is working, namely that it is worthwhile to work for this spirituality. This is called “the work of man’s hands.” That which a person can depict as being called “spirituality,” to this he prays.
But when a person repents and is rewarded with opening the eyes in the Torah, in the manner that He who knows the mysteries testifies about him, only then is it considered that the spirituality he has attained is not the work of his own hands, for then the light is revealed to him according to the depiction he is given from above and not according to the depiction that the lower one made for himself. Hence, the work of man’s hands is according to man’s depiction.