We listened to an audio talk by Pemo Chodron on the path of meditation, in which she says:

As we travel on the path, we get to know fear, we get to know the nature of fear. Gradually, we become much more adaptable and much more able to stay open and attentive to whatever might arise...reaching out, opening out. So we move in that direction, but we don't have any big expectations of what time of day, or what month or year, we're supposed to arrive. In fact, as they say, the path is goal...There's just now, and how you relate to right now.