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

48
The tangle which is entirely below the level of consciousness can
be set right by being with yourself, the ‘I am’, by watching
yourself in your daily life with alert interest with the intention to
understand rather than to judge, in full acceptance of whatever may
emerge, because it is there, you encourage the deep to come to the
surface and enrich your life and consciousness with its captive
energies. This is the great work of awareness; it removes obstacles
and releases energies by understanding the nature of life and mind.
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother
of intelligence.
49
There must be love in the relation between the person who says ‘I
am’ and the observer of the ‘I am’. As long as the observer, the
inner self; the ‘higher’ self considers himself apart from the
observed, the ‘lower’ self, despises it and condemns it, the
situation is hopeless. It is only when the observer (‘vyakta’)
accepts the person (‘vyakti’) as a projection or manifestation of
himself, and so to say, takes the self into the Self, the duality of ‘I’
and ‘this’ goes and the identity of the outer and the inner, the
Supreme Reality manifests itself.
50
There is no ‘I’ apart from the body or the world. The three appear
and disappear together. At the root is the sense ‘I am’. Go beyond
it. The idea ‘I-am-not-body’ is merely an antidote to the idea ‘Iam-the-body’,
which is false. What is that ‘I am’? Unless you
know yourself, what else can you know?