At this point, a couple of years later, since my reaction to this post, I would say that it seems to me that the right approach to the path is non attachment to result. 

The best variety of satisfaction is secured by attachment to the process and not an end result. Ideally, the process is the beginning and the end from my position.

Somehow the nature of this path causes one to lose motivation over time if there is expectation in the same manner as may be the case on other paths (of salvation).

Attachment to the process simply for sake of the path requires a certain level of purity and singularity of intent, which will come handy in time, and will come with time.