The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment Quotes

“Hope lies in a genuine embracing and nurturing of one's neurosis”
― Chris Niebauer Phd, The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment: How the Left-Brain Plays Unending Games of Self-Improvement

“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, The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment: How the Left-brain Plays Unending Games of Self-improvement

“It is the desire for peace of mind that is the biggest block to happiness and peace….in fact, it is the only block. Or as Alan put it so perfectly, “The reason you want to be better is the reason why you aren’t.” Do you still think you can be happy by trying to be happy?”
― Chris Niebauer, The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment: How the Left-brain Plays Unending Games of Self-improvement

“The next time you get nervous and don’t want to be, what can you do about it? Nothing.”
― Chris Niebauer, The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment: How the Left-brain Plays Unending Games of Self-improvement

“We are the only species that feels good when we are unhappy and anxious when nothing is wrong.”
― Chris Niebauer, The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment: How the Left-brain Plays Unending Games of Self-improvement

“For over ten years I’ve asked students: If you could take a pill and never again experience a negative emotion but rather just pure joy and bliss the rest of their life, would you? Less than 5% ever opt for it.”
― Chris Niebauer, The Neurotic's Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment: How the Left-brain Plays Unending Games of Self-improvement