Silence is golden

I found an amazing resource online that I just had to share - a BBC documentary called The Big Silence. It's an amazing story of five ordinary people testing an ancient spiritual hypothesis​: that silence is the gateway to the soul, and the soul is the gateway to God. Could it be true? Could discovering the reality of God be as simple as it sounds? Or is it rather that it IS true, but the silence part is the hard part?

The journey they go on is profound, and profoundly affecting. It's probably worth pointing out that of the five people who take on the challenge, only one has anything like an active faith.

They're all on YouTube and I've linked the first of them here (and in our Pick Me Up section). They've been broken into 12, 15-minute sections so pretty easy to take in bite-size parts. But I warn you - they're strangely compelling and addictive. You may find you want to watch them in one big go.