Judith Wright Quotes

• I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.

  Judith Wright

  Feelings, Numb, Habit

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• As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

  Judith Wright

  Past, Want, Superficial

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• Feelings or emotions are the universal language and are to be honored. They are the authentic expression of who you are at your deepest place.

  Judith Wright

  Emotional, Expression, Feelings

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• We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.

  Judith Wright

  Experience, Hungry, Difficult

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• This is the blood's wild tree that grows the intricate and folded rose

  Judith Wright

  Blood, Rose, Tree

  Judith Wright, Jack Philip McKinney, Meredith McKinney (2004). “The Equal Heart and Mind: Letters Between Judith Wright and Jack McKinney”, p.109, Univ. of Queensland Press

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• Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.

  Judith Wright

  Wisdom, Past, Fire

  Judith Wright (1992). “A human pattern: selected poems”, Carcanet Press Ltd.

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• Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the seed, each song in the life laid down - is the night sky any less strange; should my glance less follow the flight; should the pen shake less in my hand.

  Judith Wright

  Song, Nature, Stars

  Judith Wright (1971). “Collected poems, 1942-1970”, Angus & Robertson

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• When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.

  Judith Wright

  Spiritual, Break Through, And Love

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• We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.

  Judith Wright

  Life, Simple, People

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• Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

  Judith Wright

  Addiction, Seductive, Culture

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• Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

  Judith Wright

  Marriage, Growth, Path

  Judith Wright (2003). “There Must Be More Than This: Finding More Life, Love and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions”, Broadway

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• That impulse I think is a form of love. Poetry is something that comes to you, rather than your having to work out its form beforehand.

  Judith Wright

  Love, Art, Thinking

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• When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing.

  Judith Wright

  Hurt, Heart, Creative

  "There Must Be More Than This: Finding More Life, Love and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions".

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• Love is a very important part of life, and you have to give in to it. But after a while it ceases to be such an important force in life, and that's the time when you should give in to age and stop doing it, if you don't have the impulse any more.

  Judith Wright

  Love, Giving, Important

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