Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook Torah scholars whose learning is their occupation must see to it that their path lies correctly before them and that their goal is clear, so that their spirit may be strong and their mind quiet, calm and settled. This can calm your heart, so that you may learn every topic with a confident and quiet spirit, undisturbed by other things or by worrying in general about attaining total knowledge, which is impossible. Instead, you find your own personal service acceptable. In ideology, you must gain clarity about your purpose and the purpose of your desire in your Torah-learning service of God.
People customarily say that the Torah has no end.
Those who are great need no explanation for this. Then their main effort must be, first and foremost, to encompass all the halachos of the Rif in their simple meaning, with competent breadth of knowledge. The attainment of this is made much easier by a calm steadfastness. Only through the gathering of all the details will the great beauty of the glorious building of the entire practical Torah stand before your eyes. When you acquire an encompassing expertise in the halachos of the Rif, there will be born within you the desire to know the halachos clearly.