Patience Builds Palaces

(Paper Print)

Gardeners tend a blooming garden outside a corporate building, watering it faithfully, row by row. Kabir, the renowned 15th-century philosopher from Varanasi, India, wrote: “Dheere dheere re mana, dheere sab kuch hoye. Mali seenche so ghara, ritu aaye phal hoye” — slowly, O mind, everything happens in its own time. The gardener may water with a hundred pots, but the fruit arrives only in its season. Effort is never wasted — but even the most devoted effort still answers to timing it cannot control. Art comes with a 4×6 collectible archival cotton paper card. The front of the card features a hand-written affirmation: Good things take time. I do the work and trust divine timing. The back of the card describes Kabir’s teaching on patience, effort and divine timing.