Hoping feels like something you can choose to quit. But effort can't undo itself. Silence isn't found at the end of a method — it's what's left when you stop looking for it.

The harder you try to stop, the louder it gets.

"'How do I stop hoping?' You want to use effort to reach a state of no effort. You want to do something to realize that you don't need to do anything. That is like saying, 'If I follow enough method, I will reach silence.' The more noise follows a method, it will only make more noise."