To echo what VoxVeritas has written, here is a remark from a lawyer who specializes in divorces.
He quoted a friend of his as saying, you are the average of the moral stature of the people you spend the most time with.
The guy said this as a lesson that when we select a partner we don't select just that person, we select that person's friends and relatives because they are who influences that person, shape his or her identity.
When a person is involved with a guru, one had better pay very close attention to that guru's actual history and actual teachings -- not just the PR version displayed to outsiders.
He quoted a friend of his as saying, you are the average of the moral stature of the people you spend the most time with.
The guy said this as a lesson that when we select a partner we don't select just that person, we select that person's friends and relatives because they are who influences that person, shape his or her identity.
When a person is involved with a guru, one had better pay very close attention to that guru's actual history and actual teachings -- not just the PR version displayed to outsiders.