The same principle applies to the acquisition of Torah. The Torah has a doorway that sometimes seems hermitically sealed, not allowing a person in—whether because he can’t find a chavrusa or because he finds it difficult to concentrate...
What must a person do? Break though! Once, twice, again and again... with complete bittul to Hashem. “I know that I don’t have the ability on my own... but I am trying, with help from Above....” I don’t know how it will work, I don’t know how I will accomplish it... but Hashem commanded me to learn, and so I learn.
Such a person sees all the obstacles, but he refuses to look at them with an “outer” lens. This he is not afraid of trying.
Such a person will indeed be granted entry into the holy Torah, as we are assured in the Gemara ומצאת יגעת, if you have toiled, you will find (Megillah 6b). Because by toiling for Torah, one has been mevatel himself to Hashem, and thus he will receive Heavenly assistance to acquire the Torah and to feel the sweetness in Torah.
The condition for acquiring a ruchaniyus achievement is to be mevatel ourselves, knowing that we can’t do it on our own: If Hashem said to go, I go.
