“Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.”
– Winston Churchill
 
Kabir – The couplet
कबीरा कलह अरु कल्पना. सत संगती से जाय ।
दुःख बासे भागा फिरै, सुख में रहे समाय||
Transliterated:
Kabira Kalah Aru Kalpana, Sat Sangati Se Jaay |
Dukh Baase Bhaaga Phirai, Sukh Mein Rahai Samaay||

Translation:
Says Kabir, conflict and (bad) imagination, will all vanish in the right company |
Sorrow, pain, unpleasantness, all run away, the mind stays centered in peace ||

My understanding:
We humans tend to mimic the space we are in – so goes the famous saying – “When in Rome, be like a Roman”!

When we stand on our own, we rapidly try to “correct” the situation by looking for company. And then we succumb to the company’s mode of behavior, instead of retaining our own while imbibing that which should be imbibed.

As Churchill so aptly pointed out, we do sometimes even figure out the truth/right often, but then promptly discard it because it mostly asks us to modify behavior from crowd norm.

So, here, the message is, before we learn to fix our choices, let us pick the right environment. The right company will engender and deep-seat the right behavior. We are then better armed and ready to take on the larger world with lesser scope of compromising the self and succumbing to instinct. This can help us find that lasting peace and comfort!