It seems, on the surface, that knowledge increases the world – reveals its detail, its provenance, its destiny – but in actual fact it reduces reality by drawing the knower into a world dominated by mind and largely bereft of compassion. This is the arrogance of mind, the weight of mind, which we endeavour to erode, whittle away, little by little, revealing the glimmer of a humble heart. When that weight has gone then the heart will, of its own, or rather with God's help, mercy, arise, bloom and flourish and take over the life. Heart is simply a shard of the divine which yearns, above all, for union. This is the truth we all struggle to avoid facing and living up to.