If we follow any words as a thumb rule, then we are fools.

If we follow a practice as a ritual, then we will be forsaken.

If we follow in someone’s  footsteps thinking it’s the path to our destination, we have lost our way.

Then what is one to do?

Only if we seek the Truth:
then words, practice and footsteps may help as a guide or navigation points on the individual unique path that each one of us was meant to tread.