Once silent sitting practice becomes part of your life, clarity will begin to develop. When you start to gain a little clarity, there will be a much stronger motivation to practice. Once you see the value of practice in your life, you’ll be motivated to make further discoveries—and then maintaining motivation will no longer be a problem. Motivation has to propel you into practice—but there it must stop. If you fill your sitting space with the desire for progress, you’ll stifle your developing awareness. So letting go of motivation is critically valuable. When we sit, we should sit without purpose—without hope or fear.p144, Roaring Silence: Discovering the Mind of Dzogchen, Ngakpa Chögyam and Khandro Déchen, Shambhala, 2002, ISBN 1-57062-944-7