LAW OF THREE (53) Decision

LAW OF THREE (53)

DECISION

"God made man so that He could know Himself." G.I. Gurdjieff

WHO OR WHAT DECIDES?

The nature of decisions beyond ordinary day to day choices has occupied my mind for a long time.  For example:  Did I decide to be born?   A question that obviously cannot be resolved with my ordinary level of consciousness (or by the ego)

 I can differentiate two kinds of decisions: 1. Decisions that come from the Ego, the Me, or the False self and relate to the issues encountered in the ordinary world of duality. 2. the decisions that come from an I, or Self, which is (or resides) beyond the sphere or the limitations of the ordinary self-conscious ego. The question of: did I decide to be born?, is meaningless to the ego,

Another decision coming from a differente plane could be this:

As a young man at the age of 26, I was walking down a local street, when a decision struck my being. I was to leave my comfortable life in Spain and move to England! The decision came out of infinity. And even though such possibility had been playing in my mind for years the enabling power and force of the decision had not entered my awareness until that precise instant. From then on the pattern of my life was to be completely restructured

Strictly speaking, I did not take the decision... and yet.... something beyond myself... which is at the very core and centre of myself ... took the decision... which I was bound to obey!  "To hear is to obey" says the Rule of St Benedict.