The search for "paths of consolation" paradoxically bring disappointment EVERY TIME.

We shouldn't even search for consolation in God because our nature quickly disorders even this more supernaturally motivated search.

Most people abandon a serious/daily period of prayer because they don't get consistent consolation from their prayer.  The runner's high...the pray-er's high.

We should only seek the will of God in every moment of our life and not His occasionaly blessing of consolation. 

He inevitably seeks to "purify" our desire, removing consolations, to see if we truly love Him, or the feeling we sometimes get from him.

And that's why some people "Binge on hope".