"Together we seek to discover new meaning in our lives. Seeking generally proves to be a difficult experience because in most of our explorations we want an immediate answer. What have we found? Have we discovered who and what we are? We seek contact with our lives, with a subtle, vital energy. We persevere in this fundamental quest to recover what, to all appearances, is lost. Yet within us has awakened an instinct for searching, experiencing, knowing."

Henriette Lannes

Henriette Lannes became a direct pupil of G. I. Gurdjieff  in Paris during the testing era of the German occupation. After Gurdjieff's death in 1949 she became prominent among those who shouldered the weighty responsibility of transmitting his influence into the future. In London, where she taught for decades, the sense of her presence remains potent; and  her stature is saluted by Gurdjieff Studies with a special sense of indebtedness. (It is to Henriette Lannes that the major biography of Gurdjieff is dedicated.)