All the discourses of our Lord contain these four elements: commandments, doctrines, threats and promises.  With the help of these we patiently accept every kind of hardship, such as fasting, vigils, sleeping on the ground, toil and labour in acts of service, insults, dishonour, torture, death, and so on.  "Helped by the words of thy lips," says the psalmist, "I have kept to difficult paths." (Maximos the Confessor)

The interstates are easy and, usually, quick.  They are also crowded and boring.  It is more meaningful to find paths less taken.

Where am I going?  How should I get there? Joseph Campbell noticed that in the quest for the holy grail, each of the archetypal heroes must find their own entrance into the enchanted forest, their own beginning, their own path.

Campbell was famous for perceiving similar stages in the journey of most heroes.  But our particular path will be, needs to be, unique.