“The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.”

Discipleship
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
Context: To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, "You may live with me, but don't become my follower."
"Whom, then, shall I follow?"
"No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth."

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