The moment you follow someone you cease to follow truth.
As you are externally aware, so also you can be inwardly aware of your thoughts and feelings, of your motives and urges, of your prejudices, envies, greed and pride…This outward and inward awareness is a unitary process which brings about a total integration of human understanding.
Are you aware of the significance of every thought, of every reaction that you happen to have?
Life is a journey towards the unknown. An empty mind is useful in that journey rather than a mind filled with past.