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

435
When I talk I refer to the ‘I am’ knowledge and not to me
personally. As long as you are attached to and identified with the
body you will never have peace. But once you get rid of the body
attachment you could be the king and ruler of the world, yet still be
at peace.
436
Knowing that you are not the body, watch the vital breath as a flow
of the mind. You are here in the spark of ‘I amness’. When you
acknowledge the ‘I amness’ you become the spark. I am like space
and do not have an identity – this is my ‘I amness’ from which all
the talk is being produced.
437
Unless you have the understanding of ‘I amness’, there is no
progress. Once you understand the ‘I am’, there is nothing further
to understand. When your ‘I amness’ is gone, together with
everything, then there is nothing. Then that Nothingness is
everything, but there no one left to say so.
438
This body is only the food body for the consumption and the
sustenance of the ‘I amness’. You have to remain in that Beingness
or Consciousness with firm faith while having no identification
with the body or the personality, or with name and form. Always
identify yourself with Consciousness, it will take a while for this
conviction to root, but persist.