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Top 10 Chris Niebauer Quotes (2025 Update)

Chris Niebauer Quote: “To live in a world of abstractions – based on language, concepts, beliefs, patterns, labels – is to live in a dream world rather than reality.”

1. “To live in a world of abstractions – based on language, concepts, beliefs, patterns, labels – is to live in a dream world rather than reality.”

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Chris Niebauer Quote: “Rather than embrace reality as it is, the left brain is hopelessly addicted to storytelling and interpretations about reality, which provide a short-term hit of purpose and meaning but an inevitable crash of suffering. And most people never even know this cycle is going on.”

2. “Rather than embrace reality as it is, the left brain is hopelessly addicted to storytelling and interpretations about reality, which provide a short-term hit of purpose and meaning but an inevitable crash of suffering. And most people never even know this cycle is going on.”

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Chris Niebauer Quote: “Biography is fiction, autobiography is hopelessly inventive” and “The self is a fiction invented by the brain.” You might also find yourself emphasizing this is “Just my opinion” or “The way I see it” rather than “This is the way it is” and this is enough. This small difference is enough to change how we live with each other and ourselves.”

3. “Biography is fiction, autobiography is hopelessly inventive” and “The self is a fiction invented by the brain.” You might also find yourself emphasizing this is “Just my opinion” or “The way I see it” rather than “This is the way it is” and this is enough. This small difference is enough to change how we live with each other and ourselves.”

— Chris Niebauer

Chris Niebauer Quote: “When you listen to someone speak, or when you speak yourself, bring some attention to the silent space between the sounds. Can you sense in the same way a figure is dependent on the background that sound is dependent on silence? Without silence, sound would have no meaning.”

4. “When you listen to someone speak, or when you speak yourself, bring some attention to the silent space between the sounds. Can you sense in the same way a figure is dependent on the background that sound is dependent on silence? Without silence, sound would have no meaning.”

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Chris Niebauer Quote: “During a now famous lecture, the Eastern philosopher and spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti asked the audience “Do you want to know what my secret is?” According to several accounts of this story, in a soft voice, he said, “I don’t mind what happens.”

5. “During a now famous lecture, the Eastern philosopher and spiritual teacher J. Krishnamurti asked the audience “Do you want to know what my secret is?” According to several accounts of this story, in a soft voice, he said, “I don’t mind what happens.”

— Chris Niebauer

Chris Niebauer Quote: “Instead of being so identified with the “me” in our heads, we find ourselves noticing things like “that’s my left-brain interpreter telling stories.” When the stories it creates don’t evoke as strong a mental or emotional reaction, our suffering lessens as a result.”

6. “Instead of being so identified with the “me” in our heads, we find ourselves noticing things like “that’s my left-brain interpreter telling stories.” When the stories it creates don’t evoke as strong a mental or emotional reaction, our suffering lessens as a result.”

— Chris Niebauer

Chris Niebauer Quote: “A sense of freedom can emerge from the realization that you are under no obligation to be consistent.”

7. “A sense of freedom can emerge from the realization that you are under no obligation to be consistent.”

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Chris Niebauer Quote: “In one study, subjects listened to music while half of them tried as hard as they could to be happy.5 The half that tried to be happy were less happy than the group that just listened. Another study found that those who put a high value on happiness had more negative emotions.6 Of course, long ago the Buddha explained how desire leads to suffering; this seems to also hold even for the desire to be happy.”

8. “In one study, subjects listened to music while half of them tried as hard as they could to be happy.5 The half that tried to be happy were less happy than the group that just listened. Another study found that those who put a high value on happiness had more negative emotions.6 Of course, long ago the Buddha explained how desire leads to suffering; this seems to also hold even for the desire to be happy.”

— Chris Niebauer

Chris Niebauer Quote: “Mistaking the voice in our head for a thing and labeling it “me” brings us into conflict with the neuropsychological evidence that shows there is no such thing. This mistake – this illusory sense of self – is the primary cause of our mental suffering. What’s more, I contend that it blocks access to the eternal, expansive thread of universal consciousness that is always available to us.”

9. “Mistaking the voice in our head for a thing and labeling it “me” brings us into conflict with the neuropsychological evidence that shows there is no such thing. This mistake – this illusory sense of self – is the primary cause of our mental suffering. What’s more, I contend that it blocks access to the eternal, expansive thread of universal consciousness that is always available to us.”

— Chris Niebauer

Chris Niebauer Quote: “We are the only species that we know of that can believe in ourselves, lie to ourselves, convince ourselves, love or hate ourselves, accept ourselves, push and even pull ourselves.”

10. “We are the only species that we know of that can believe in ourselves, lie to ourselves, convince ourselves, love or hate ourselves, accept ourselves, push and even pull ourselves.”

— Chris Niebauer

Chris Niebauer Quote: “Sure, the physical entity of my body and my brain is there, but the “I” attached to it only exists as a thought – and only when I think it.”

11. “Sure, the physical entity of my body and my brain is there, but the “I” attached to it only exists as a thought – and only when I think it.”

— Chris Niebauer

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