As your meditation develops beyond the level of ego payoffs, the prison walls begin to crack.
You might think of these deeper motives in many ways :
to answer the question, " Who am I?"
to awaken cosmic consciousness
to see things just as they are
to rend the veils of illusion
to know God
to tune to the harmony of the universe
to gain more compassion
to reach a higher consciousness
to become liberated
to be born again
to know the truth which lies beyond the dualism
to transcend the wheel of birth and death
to abandon desire
to be free