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

the spiritual light. Self-love and ‘I am’ without words are the same.
The sickness may come and go, but the self-love does not go.
241
Until you recognize and completely identify yourself with the
knowledge ‘I am’, you will identify with the body. When one
disidentifies with the body, one transcends not only the body but
consciousness as well, since consciousness is a product of the
body. The consciousness no longer says ‘I am’, ‘I am’.
242
When you were unaware of this message of ‘I am’ how did you
function? The question I put, nobody can answer. All of your great
scholars, people with a lot of knowledge, have gone into quietude.
243
That state of being is common to all, which is the message ‘I am’
without words. Change is only in the mind-flow. All the studies
you are doing are in the realm of mind-flow. The sense of ‘I am’ is
present because of your birth, through which you encounter many
thoughts and concepts, always changing. Presently the message ‘I
am’ is constant.
244
The body is not you, the name is not you. The body is the food you
have consumed; the taste of it is the knowledge ‘I am’. That is
Self, the feeling ‘I am’, that is the love to be. How amazing, how
incredible, it has no name, but you give many names to it. It is the
Self, the love to be. That love to be is all pervading. Before you
conceptualize anything, you are, even before the knowingness, you
are.