It is impossible to remember oneself in small 'I's and it is merely a waste of time. In fact it is worse than a waste of time because it drags the whole Work down to a very small level. If you go about in your daily life and simply suddenly try to remember yourself because some little parrot ‘I’ tells you to do so—one of those little nagging 'I's that give you an entirely false sense of duty—then simply laugh at such nonsense.

The act of Self-Remembering must have a certain emotional quality. It is owing to the emotional quality that one is put at once into higher parts of centers, into bigger 'I's. These can remember the Work, they can understand it. No one can work continuously but only at times. But it is possible to keep awake a little all the time and at least to observe oneself. Self-observation should accompany our ordinary life and can do so. But Self-Remembering is on a quite different level.

Maurice Nicoll, “Commentary on Memory" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 2, p. 587)