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

58
The teacher tells the watcher you are not this; there is nothing
yours in this, except the point of ‘I am’, which is the bridge
between the watcher and his dream. ‘I am this’, ‘I am that’ is a
dream, while pure ‘I am’ has the stamp of reality on it. You have
tasted so many things – all came to naught. Only the sense ‘I am’
persisted – unchanged. Stay with the changeless among the
changeful, until you are able to go beyond.
59
First you create a world, then the ‘I am’ becomes a person, who is
not happy for various reasons. He goes out in search of happiness,
meets a Guru who tells him ‘You are not a person, find out who
you are’. He does it and goes beyond.
60
He who is beyond time – is the un-nameable. A glowing ember
moved round and round quickly enough appears as a glowing
circle. When the movement ceases, the ember remains. Similarly,
the ‘I am’ in movement creates the world. The ‘I am’ at peace
becomes the Absolute.
61
Immortality is freedom from the feeling: ‘I am’. Yet it is not
extinction. On the contrary, it is a state infinitely more real, aware
and happy than you can possibly think of. Only self-consciousness
is no more. Who would remain even to say ‘I am the witness’?
When there is no ‘I am’, where is the witness? In the timeless state
there no self to take refuge in.