Grant, I thee pray, such heat into mine heartThat to this love of thine shall be equal;Grant me from Satan’s service to a start,With whom me rueth so long to have been thrall;Grant me, good Lord and Creator of all,The flame to quench of all sinful desireAnd in thy love set all mine heart afire. .St Thomas More   in A Book of Uncommon Prayer, edited by Theo Dorgan (Penguin, 2007)To be silent – truly silent – is to dissolve all the projections that make up the story that we call “me” and “my life”. To be silent is to be present: not floating in fantasy or memory, not thinking of this or that. It is to see things as they are, rather than as we think we would like them to be. By spending a little time in silence, we will really notice how mo