" I AM"...

The actual experience alone can settle this argument. This is what
I found: The ego vanished; the everyday "I" which the world knew and
which knew the world, was no longer there. But a new and diviner
individuality appeared in its place, a consciousness which could say
"I AM" and which I recognized to have been my real self all along. It
was not lost, merged, or dissolved: it was fully and vividly conscious
that it was a point in universal Mind and so not apart from that Mind
itself. Only the lower self, the false self, was gone but that was a
loss for which to be immeasurably grateful.

— Notebooks Category 28: The Alone > Chapter 2: Our Relation To
the Absolute > # 142.......Paul Brunton