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

54
All directions are within the mind. I am not asking you to look in
any particular direction. Just look away from all that happens in
your mind and bring it to the feeling ‘I am’. The ‘I am’ is not a
direction. It is the negation of all directions. Ultimately even the ‘I
am’ will have to go for you need not keep asserting what is
obvious. Bringing the mind to the feeling ‘I am’ merely helps
turning the mind away from everything else.
55
Tirelessly I draw your attention to the one incontrovertible factor –
that of being. Being needs no proofs – it proves itself. If only you
go deep into the fact of being and discover the vastness and the
glory, to which the ‘I am’ is the door, and cross the door and go
beyond, your life will be full of happiness and light. Believe me;
the effort needed is as nothing when compared with the discoveries
arrived at.
56
Hold on to the sense ‘I am’ to the exclusion of everything else.
When this mind becomes completely silent, it shines with a new
light and vibrates with new knowledge. It all comes spontaneously;
you need only to hold on to the ‘I am’.
57
Begin with feeling ‘I am’. All else is neither true nor false, it seems
real when it appears, it disappears when it is denied. A transient
thing is a mystery. The real is simple, open, clear and kind,
beautiful and joyous. It is completely free of contradictions. It is
ever-new, ever-fresh, and endlessly creative. Being and non-being,
life and death, all distinctions merge in it.