the next and most necessary thing

Carl Jung:

Your questions are unanswerable because you want to know how one ought to live.

One lives as one can.

There is no single, definite way for the individual which is prescribed for him or would be the proper one.

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If you always do the next thing that needs to be done, you will go most safely and sure-footedly along the path prescribed by your unconscious.

Then it is naturally no help at all to speculate about how you ought to live.

And then you know, too, that you cannot know it, but quietly do the next and most necessary thing.