Listen, but don’t follow. Listen well, but follow your own insight, don’t follow others’ advice. Listen certainly—very meditatively, try to understand what they are wanting to convey to you. They may really be well wishers, but if you start following blindly you will never attain to your own intelligence. You will remain dependent on crutches, you will always look up to others to tell you what to do, what not to do. You will always need leaders—which is a very unhealthy state, to need leaders. Listen, because people have great experiences, and if they are sharing, willing to share, it will be foolish on your part not to listen. Sharing their experience may give you great insight—it will help you to become more aware—but don‘t follow. People follow literally and then they become just blind. When others are giving you all that you need, what is the need to have your own eyes? And when others are chewing for you, what is the need to chew on your own? Slowly, slowly you bec...