Following others, however wise they may seem, impedes finding one's own freedom, which is not a matter of becoming or transcending anything, but of simple openness to this once-upon-a-once, never-to-be-repeated instant. 

In that posture, one lives step by step, one moment at a time, free of acquired ‘ultimate knowledge,’ using the intelligence of this moment, without fixing on myself and my happiness.

Robert Saltzman