Sorry been busy… Thought to answer this though.
“CS you make out as if it is easy to do something lesheim Shomayim once you become aware of it.”
The easy/ automatic part is the inspiration/ motivation/ empowerment you feel when I connect to my Neshama via Chassidus, and get my nefesh habehamis on board too. But actual avoda does take avoda sure. I just feel the goal posts are different. We’re playing to reach tzadik (or at least beinoni)
“There are very few people – and it is unlikely that any of them spend time in the CR – who do things solely for the sake of Hashem. It’s very nice that people realize that they can make a dirah for Hashem, so to speak, and it may indeed change their mindset, but to assume that that is takke the reason they are doing it, and that they no longer have personal motives, is unreal.”
It’s not all or nothing. And just because your NFHB has ulterior motives, you don’t have to take it so seriously and identify with it. You can identify with your neshama (yah it takes avoda but it’s been done) one situation at a time and do it selflessly from that POV.
“Kol ma’asecha yihyu lesheim Shomayim, is the finish line, not the starting line.”
That’s the starting line by us🙃 the finish is bchol derachecha doeihu.