The complete 'I am' quotes of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Pradeep Apte

401
The thing which attracts you most of all is your ‘I amness’. You
want to retain that ‘I amness’. You wan to ‘Be’. This ‘I am’ is what
you truly love most. You want to be alive.
402
That love, that knowledge which gives light is the knowledge ‘I
am’. Focus on your beingness until you become established in it.
Only then will you be able to transcend it. Your focus at present is
on air or the breath (addressed to the one doing Pranayama). ‘Be’
that beingness, though, this also is not the final step.
403
Be that ‘I am’, once you know who you are, remain stabilized in
the experience of the Self. Be like Arjuna, Awareness of his Being
remained with him constantly, even when he went into the thick of
battle. Because he was with Krishna, he could go into battle,
knowing that there is nobody who kills and no one who is killed.
404
The knowledge that is prior to thought – ‘I am’ – is covered by a
human body which food with the vital breath and knowledge of the
Self (Prana and Jnana). This means that you are only covered by a
human body. Once you reach that state of ‘I am’ through your
attention you will only be aware of ‘That’ and you will no longer
be affected by all of these tendencies (Vasanas). You will have
transcended them.
405
You have to be one with the Self, the ‘I am’. If you say knowledge,
it is just the same as information. If necessary discard the words ‘I