“We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.”
— William Channing

Kabir – The couplet
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transliterated:
Dheere dheere re mana, dheere sab kuch hoye |
Maali seenche sau ghada, ritu aaye phal hoye ||

Translation:
Patience, O Heart – everything takes time |
No matter the amount of watering by the gardener, fruit will only arrive in season||

My understanding:

We rush, and want everything around us to speed up with us. But the real virtue is to learn to slow down to the pace of everything around us.

Children do not grow up and gain wisdom overnight – they need time to grow, to learn, to experience. Protecting them from the “badness” of the world does not make them better – only less equipped. The story of Mahavira is but an example of this.

Only the tree that has weathered a few storms provides both cool shelter from the sun and enough fruit to satiate a hungry man.

Experience needs time – time to gain, and then more time to understand, appreciate and imbibe. Then, and only then, are we ready to really learn from the experience – and this needs more time. So then, experience will be experience only after we give it time, effort and understanding!