“The ‘I am’ is the sum total of everything you perceive.

It appears spontaneously and disappears, it has no dwelling place.
It is like a dream world.

Do not try to be something,
even a spiritual person.

You are the manifested.
The tree is already there in the seed.
Such is the ‘I am’.

Just see it as it is.”

~ Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj

The question of what one is comes only in manifestation,
in comparison with other phenomenon.
In my state there is no phenomenon;
my existence is prior to any manifestation.
There is no question of who or what I am.

~ Nisargadatta