Barbara Probst served as the personal secretary to Lord John Pentland for the last five years of his life. Not only was Lord Pentland head of the Gurdjieff Foundation and instrumental in spreading Gurdjieff’s ideas throughout North America for three decades, he was also a businessman, keenly involved in a range of endeavors. This unique collection of anecdotes and vignettes offers a vivid portrait of a man who embodied Gurdjieff’s call to awaken to oneself, “always and everywhere,” and sought to awaken that call—in deft, subtle, and unexpected ways—in those who were near him.