Danielle Klafter
Reflections on writing, life, and contemplative spirituality
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Birth is a type of death and death is a type of birth. We tend to think of a life on a linear timeline, birth at one end and death as far from it as possible on the other. But if you place life on a circle, the two endpoints touch and meet, intertwined—perhaps one…
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Preparing these crabapples for edibility is not the most efficient or classically productive use of my time, yet there is also something about it that feels satisfying. Embodied. It forces me to slow down, inviting me to be fully present with the task.
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Why am I doing what I’m doing? Who is it for? What meaning does it hold? The urge to compare can be paralyzing, but we can each only be who we are. How I can lean into who I already am and what I do well to offer as a gift to the world?
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At its best, is not the process of birth itself a form of surrender? One where my body delivers and yields, opening up to an embodied way of giving life that has been happening since women first knew existence. It should not be something where I am forced against my will to give or submit…
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Negative self-talk, shame, and comparison don’t serve me in working towards my goals. It also doesn’t help to completely let myself off the hook every day and say, “oh well.” No book manuscript will get finished this way.
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Everyone needs voices and relationships in your life that call you on your own bullshit. Okay, I won’t speak for you. But I will speak for me.
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We are inextricably linked and interconnected with everyone around us. Most of us live oblivious to it, our ego teaching us to think in an individualized way. But if we are all made in the image of the Divine, if we all carry Divine DNA in our being, and if we are all given the…
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Considering God as Father is not wrong or incorrect. But it’s only one view. And there are so many others. I’m not going to argue that God should be translated as “she” with a capital “S” either, as if flipping the all-or-nothing spectrum would fix anything. God is outside gender, something wholly other than us.…
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“The Kingdom of Heaven is really a metaphor for a state of consciousness; it is not a place you go to, but a place you come from. It is a whole new way of looking at the world, a transformed awareness that literally turns the world into a different place.” –Cynthia Bourgeault
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What if I set aside instinctual judgments and assumptions about my relationships, choosing instead my most generous interpretation of what is going on?
- Thin Places: Death and Life Intermingled
- Crabapples
- Owning Your Voice: A Bit on Writing Craft and a Lot on Identity
- Facing a Double Bind: A Birthing Dilemma
- Ebbs and Flows: Two Things True Simultaneously
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