nicoll - self remembering IS the goal

here's something which addresses another purpose and function of self remembering. nicoll affirms the existence of a higher state, and coming into contact with it as our goal.

Nicoll, Commentaries, page 898:

Enough has been said to shew that Self-Remembering does not mean always to remember your negative self. In this connection I will give you one definition of external considering and its meaning. It was said on one occasion at the early Groups that external considering means to forget oneself and to think what the other wants, and it was added that in this way two results will follow. The first is that one can help, and the second is that one gets help. But if you really come to think about the whole question you will see that all real Self-Remembering is simply forgetting yourself, your ordinary self, your ordinary negative 'I's, your ordinary forms of internal considering, and all the rest of it, and feeling certain that some further state of yourself exists above all this personal uproar that takes place all day long in each one of you, with which you keep on identifying, and when the Work says that we have Real 'I' above us you must understand that this act, so to speak, of separating from False Personality, deliberately at some moment every day, is designed to make it possible for us to come in contact with the first traces of Real 'I' which is already there and which is our real goal.