Honey to feed on

Roberta at Spiritually Directed always has wonderful quotes with correspondingly eloquent images. Here's one I really like, which connects to a Wisdom Class meditation this week:

"The point of travelling is not to arrive

but to return home

laden with pollen you shall work up

Into honey the mind feeds on."

- R.S. Thomas - Welsh poet & priest

Last night as I lay sleeping, I dreamt
O, marvelous error--
That there was a beehive here inside my heart
And the golden bees were making white combs
And sweet honey from all my failures.

- Machado de Assis (1839-1908)
Brazilian poet and novelist

This is only part of his wonderful poem, which I posted in its entirety on March 10, 2009, entitled "Marvellous Error."