“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”

(Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)

10th November, 1969

“There is no emotion in a human creature purer or sweeter than the hidden feeling that awakens to life unawares in the heart of a maiden to fill the emptiness of her breast with enchanting melodies and make her days like the poets’s dream and her nights like the prophet’s vision.”

(From Spirits Rebllious by Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)

John Lentell

7th November, 1969

“A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.”

(From The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)

John Lentell

11th May, 1969

“Love one another, but make not a bond of love,

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.”

(From The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)

John Lentell

4th May, 1969

“In your longing for your giant self lies your goodness; and that longing is in all of you.”

(The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)

John Lentell

October 25th, 1968

“Oft-times in denying yourself pleasure you do but store the desire in the recesses of your being.”

(Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)

John Lentell

September 13th, 1968

“If any of you would bring to judgement the unfaithful wife,

Let him also weight the heart of her husband in scales, and measure his soul with measurements.”

(Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931)

John Lentell

September 11th, 1968

“To the spirit that did embrace my spirit. To the heart that did pour out its secrets into my heart…..”

(Dedication of a book by Kahlil Gibran)

John Lentell

August 27th, 1968

“To wake at dawn with a winged heart…..”

(Kahlil Gibran, 1883 – 1931, “The Prophet” – writing of love)

John Lentell

August 23rd, 1968

I am not wedded to any particular dogma – Christian or otherwise – and (lest I be misunderstood) I am certainly not in the book business! But I would recommend to anyone seeking a better understanding of life and death the writings of Kahlil Gibran – especially ‘The Prophet’ – “every page has some beautiful and liberating thought”.

“His power came from some great reservoir of spiritual life….”

John Lentell – Barum & Sarum

December 15th, 1967