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

this body-mind meditating as an individual, but it is this
knowledge ‘I am’, this consciousness, meditating on itself. Then
the consciousness will unfold its own meaning.
361
This is the greatest miracle, that I got the news ‘I am’, have you
any doubts that you are? It is self-evident. Prior to knowing that
you are, what knowledge did you have? ‘Dhyana’ means to have
an objective. You want to consider something. You ‘are’ that
something, just to be, you are. Just being the being ‘I am’. You
meditate on something; that knowledge ‘I am’ is yourself. Abide
only there. How can you ask any questions at this point? Because,
that is, the beginning of knowledge.
362
By reading various books and listening to everything else, you
cannot become a ‘mahatma’, but only through that knowledge ‘I
am’. Don’t concentrate on the body; because of a body you call
yourself male or female. Just hold on to that knowledge ‘I am’
only without body sense – beyond name and form or design. But
you have to employ name, form and design for the sake of worldly
activities.
363
You must have a firm conviction that ‘I am’ is only that ‘I am’
without body-mind form – the knowledge ‘I am’ purely. You say
all these things, but has the knowledge come within the purview of
the knowledge? You must have that full conviction, whatever you
may have said, that is the truth and that is ‘I am’. There are no
techniques, except the technique that ‘I am’ the firm conviction
that ‘I am’ means ‘I am’ only, abidance in ‘I’. Don’t practice this
thing, only develop your conviction.