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

making use of your mind and see what happens. Do this one thing
thoroughly. That is all.
The fact is you. The only thing you know for sure is: ‘here and
now I am’. Remove the ‘here and now’, the ‘I am’ remains
unassailable.
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All I can say is ‘I am’, all else is inference. But the inference has
become a habit. Destroy all habits of thinking and sleeping. The
sense ‘I am’ is a manifestation of a deeper cause, which you may
call self, God, Reality or by any other name. The ‘I am’ is in the
world but it is the key which can open the door out of the world.
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Only your sense ‘I am’ though in the world, is not of the world. By
no effort of logic you can change the ‘I am’ into ‘I am not’. In the
very denial of your being you assert it. Once you realize that the
world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free
yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your imagination.
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The sense ‘I am’ is composed of pure light and the sense of being.
The ‘I’ is there even without the ‘am’. So is the pure light there,
whether you say ‘I’ or not. Become aware of that pure light and
you will never lose it. The beingness in being, the awareness in
consciousness, the interest in every experience – that is not
describable, yet perfectly accessible, for there is nothing else.