Coming Back to Oneself: The Practice of Self-Remembering

One of the strangest things that one realizes when one has been in this Work for some time is that we so seldom apply it in any actual unpleasant situation.

A moment of Self-Remembering, the whole idea of Self-Remembering, is to draw into oneself all these scattered elements that have been glued to events. One definition of Self-Remembering was given in ancient days that runs as follows: "I come out of everything else into myself."

Maurice Nicoll, “Practical Application of Work Ideas to Your Life Now" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 4, p. 1342)