October 04, 2025

How well we live is how well we respond to our environment–how well we do what is called for in each situation as it arises.

We live to do well with our life. To do right by our knacks and abilities and the gifts of our original nature, our innate imagination and inherent intuition.

We are born with everything we need to find what we need to do what needs to be done in each situation that arises our entire life long. We have what it takes to do what it takes to deal with life as it comes throughout the time left for living.

Our life expects certain things of us, requires us to be who we are, doing what is ours to do. When we let our life down, things begin to fall apart. Parents have to do right by their children. Husbands have to do right by their wives and wives, their husbands. People have to do right by other people. When we don’t do our part, it goes from bad to worse in a hurry.

We keep things on an even keel through regular returns to emptiness, stillness and silence, but who does that these days? There is nothing but noise on all sides all the time. When we retreat, it is not to the silence, it is to addiction and denial. And we do not come to terms with ourselves, grow up, make amends, change our way of living and of responding to life as it is lived. We plow through the days like we have done with all the days that have gone before.

The requirement of Psyche/Tao of doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, where it needs to be done, how it needs to be done is ignored by everyone all of the time. And it is the only thing that can get things back to the way they should be in the time left for living. Turning things around starts with us and how we respond to the next situation as it arises. Let’s do it as it needs to be done, shall we?