the next right thing

Last night I received this passage from a friend (I've bolded a few of the lines the leapt off the page at me):

On December 15, 1933, Carl Jung wrote a reply to a correspondent, Frau V., responding to several questions on the proper conduct of life, and his answer is a good one which to end this book. “‘Dear Frau V.,” Jung began, “Your questions are unanswerable, because you want to know how to live. One lives as one can. There is no single, definite way…If that’s what you want, you had best join the Catholic Church, where they tell you what’s what.” By contrast, the individual path “is the way you make for yourself, which is never prescribed, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being itself when you put one foot in front of the other.” His sole advice for walking such a path is “quietly do the next and most necessary thing. So long as you think you don’t know what that is, you still have too much money to spend in useless speculation. But if you do with conviction the next and most necessary thing, you are always doing something meaningful and intended by fate.”

All I can think of after reading that passage is to keep pursuing your authentic life.

You can find this passage in the book Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman.

See you tomorrow and keep pursuing,

JC