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

70
Look at yourself steadily – it is enough. The door that locks you in
is also the door that lets you out. The ‘I am’ is the door. Stay at it
until it opens. As a matter of fact, it is open, only you are not at it.
You are waiting at the non-existent painted doors, which will never
open.
71
Keep the ‘I am’ in the focus of awareness, remember that you
‘are’, watch yourself ceaselessly and the unconscious will flow
into the conscious without any special effort on your part. The
person merges into the witness, the witness into awareness,
awareness into pure being, yet identity is not lost, only its
limitations are lost. It is transfigured and becomes the real Self, the
‘sadguru’, the eternal friend and guide. To go deeper, meditation is
essential, the striving to go beyond the states of sleep, dream and
waking. In the beginning the attempts are irregular, then recur
more often, become regular, then continuous and intense, until all
obstacles are conquered.
72
All that happens, happens in and to the mind, not to the source of
the ‘I am’. Once you realize that all happens by itself (call it
destiny or the will of God or mere accident), you remain as witness
only, understanding and enjoying, but not perturbed.
73
Before you can say ‘I am’, you must be there to say it. Being need
not be self-conscious. You need not know to be, but you must ‘be’
to know.