We should have done something

The search for a path through life

The subject of whether or not we should do anything keeps coming up.

Of course the old adage—oft quoted, rarely examined in detail—is that man cannot do. Yet of course, inevitably, we do “do,” especially in the mundane sphere of ordinary life. We were furthermore to all appearances born to do, exhortations of Gurdjieff followers and tattered buddhist med…