http://www.christopherleenutter.com Author of The Way Out Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:31:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To be spiritual or to become enlightened is not about being anything other than what you are. The idea that you have to change to do either – that you have to not love what you love, to edit how you truly feel, to believe that what you are right now ... http://www.christopherleenutter.com/2008/07/10/to-be-spiritual-or-to-become-enlightened-is-not-about-being-anything-other-than-what-you-are/ Accidental Openness Reality seems very firm, but it isn’t. Whatever you experience as reality is only as firm as you make it. The power in this is to realize that you can unmake “the world” and your world in a flash and remake it according to whatever it is you like. This ... http://www.christopherleenutter.com/2008/01/10/accidental-openness/ I am a gay man, and I am powerful. I know this because I was born into a world that did not love me for who I am. And so I had to learn to love myself. Though this was a difficult path, it showed me how powerful I am. From ... http://www.christopherleenutter.com/2007/08/01/i-am-a-gay-man-and-i-am-powerful/ The idea of experiencing heaven here and how is a challenging concept because, let’s face it, we have all been raised to believe that heaven on Earth is impossible. To begin with, the religious messages we get very early on in life is that Heaven is for after life…that is, if ... http://www.christopherleenutter.com/2007/06/25/heaven-here-now/   Most of us walk around ignoring or dismissing how we feel. And yet we are driven by our emotions. So just as becoming aware of what you think is incredibly powerful, so is becoming aware of how you feel. And there are many important reasons to be acutely aware of ... http://www.christopherleenutter.com/2007/04/19/listen-very-closely-to-how-you-feel/ There is no power in your life greater than your own. We fear this possibility because we think that if we embrace it, then we are to blame for what has gone wrong in our lives. But if you let go of blame altogether, the premise turns into one of ... http://www.christopherleenutter.com/2007/03/08/chris-blog-entry/