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

trace is memory. You are that tiny point and by your movement the
world is ever re-created. Stop moving and there will be no world.
Look within and you will find that the point of light is the
reflection of the immensity of light in the body as the sense ‘I am’.
There is only light all else appears.
To be the point of light (reflected as the sense ‘I am’) tracing the
world is ‘turiya’. To be the light itself is ‘turiyatita’. But of what
use are names when reality is so near?
The sense of ‘I am’ is both unreal and real. Unreal when I say ‘I
am this or that’. It is real when we mean ‘I am not this nor that’.
The ‘I am’ and the witness are not one, but without one the other
cannot be.
Give your heart and mind to brooding over the ‘I am’, what is it,
how is it, what is its source, its life, its meaning. It is very much
like digging a well. You reject all that is not water, till you reach
the life-giving spring.
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The witness and consciousness appear and disappear together. The
witness or the sense ‘I am’ too is transient but is given importance
to break the spell of the known; the illusion that only the
perceivable is real. Presently for you perception is primary and
witnessing secondary, revert it to make witnessing primary and
perception secondary (The ‘I am’ is just a device to revert).