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Justin Foster
https://fosterthinking.substack.com/
embrace gratitude so fully that it eclipses our anxieties and fears.
“I had to negotiate the world from THAT place: the loss, the pain, and being plunged into the depths of perpetual darkness, thinking I’d never return. More importantly, I didn’t want to return, having felt like I’d been thrown into the flames, submerged underwater AND been buried alive all at the same time.
But guess what?
I didn’t burn. I didn’t drown. I didn’t suffocate.
I DID die though.
I died to who and what I no longer was. But with EVERY initiation, I was also reborn a little bit more powerful then the time before.”
― Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic.
But guess what?
I didn’t burn. I didn’t drown. I didn’t suffocate.
I DID die though.
I died to who and what I no longer was. But with EVERY initiation, I was also reborn a little bit more powerful then the time before.”
― Witch: Unleashed. Untamed. Unapologetic.
“I’m fundamentally a hopeful person, because I know that decisions made the world as it is and that better decisions can change it. Nothing about our situation is inevitable or immutable, but you can’t solve a problem with the consciousness that created it.”
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
“Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“Warriors of the Light always have a certain gleam in their eyes. They are of this world. They are part of the lives of other people and they set out on their journey with no saddlebags and no sandals. They are often cowardly. They do not always make the right decisions. They suffer over the most trivial things; they have mean thoughts and sometimes believe they are incapable of growing. They frequently deem themselves unworthy of any blessing or miracle. They are not always quite sure of what they are doing here. They spend many sleepless nights, believing that their lives have no meaning. That is why they are Warriors of the Light. Because they make mistakes, because they ask themselves questions, because they are looking for a reason they are sure to find it.”
― Warrior of the Light
― Warrior of the Light
“It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.... Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person (for what would a union be of two people who are unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent?), it is a high inducement for the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world in himself for the sake of another person; it is a great, demanding claim on him, something that chooses him and calls him to vast distances... Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion is not for them (who must still, for a long, long time, save and gather themselves); it is the ultimate, is perhaps that for which human lives are as yet barely large enough.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
Justin’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Justin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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2,992 friends
194 books
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790 books
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6 books
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1,715 books
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199 books
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101 books
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235 friends
989 books
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