title: Living in the Question: Meditations in the Style of Lectio Divina
author: Basil M. Pennington
description: M. Basil Pennington is one of todays more respected spiritual beacons. A Cistercian monk with the avocation of author, he has written over fifty books including Centering Prayer: Renewing an Ancient Christian Prayer Form (1987) and True Self/False Self: Unmasking the Spirit Within (2000). His community is located in Spencer, Massachusetts.
zlib_text: Basil Tilley -  
  From Antiquity: A grateful tribute from a pupil of G.I.Gurdjieff 
    
   
  Chapter 1: 'Know Thyself' 
  Who is this who is forever looking over my shoulder? He uses such 
  words as perhaps, should, should not, can or cannot.  
   
  Sometimes he disapproves and sometimes he admires. What is he at, 
  what are his standards? Of course he goes away from time to time and I 
  am happy to get on with what I wish to do, but sooner or later he 
  returns to have a look at what is going on. But also he can be very 
  helpful as, for instance, when I am in a state of imagination about 
  money, sex, or even my own death. At such a moment he can remind 
  me that none of these things I anticipate are happening at this moment. 
  This is a great relief: I had not really seen that! Usually I am only dimly 
  aware that he is there at all: it is a kind of twilight in which my life takes 
  place impinging on my consciousness. 
   
  But who is he? Although he appears to be the same person who gives 
  or withholds 