Dear Anita,

I did not know this old saying, but I like it.  It is true. There is no good that comes from rushing.

my dad used to say an old saying, in our Indian language – that roughly translates into “haste makes waste”

I realize I did not respect this “teaching” given that it was from him.  Interesting isn’t it.  I see that now I do respect the concept of “haste makes waste” because I have now learned it for myself, through my own experience.  Haste makes anxiety, and suffering.  Haste often may not seem to make waste, seems to make productivity and bonus – but over time it makes waste in that it creates the frenzied state.  The state that you highlighted above, that creates suffering in so many forms.