Chapter 2: Gifts needed by an abbot or abbess (paragraph 3)

To disciples who can understand they may teach the way of the Lord with words; but to the less receptive and uneducated they should teach what the Lord commands us by example. (From para. 3 of Ch. 2 of Saint Benedict's Rule, trans. by Patrick Barry, OSB, 1997.)

For me, the practice of meditation functions as "teaching by example" -- praying with Jesus as he prays to the Father -- and so, example can touch experience.