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No Need to Sparkle

David Price
4 min readNov 16, 2024

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Legh Mulhall Kilpin — Gate of the Infinite (1910)

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

~ Virginia Woolf

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The human woman does give birth as the earth gives birth to the plants. She gives nourishment as the plants do. So, woman magic and earth magic are the same, they are related.

And the personification, then, of this energy which gives birth to forms and nourishes forms is properly female.

It is in the agricultural world of ancient Mesopotamia, the Egyptian Nile, but also in earlier planting culture systems, that the goddess is the mythic form that is dominant.

~ Joseph Campbell

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There is a concept that a person can create their own reality…The wave you’re sending is the feed-forward part of the loop. You need to realize that the wave coming back is the feed-back which is the rest of the universe creating its reality and responding to you.

The universe (Planck Field or ”the Divine”) interacts with the rest of humanity and your creation and the universe gives you a result that is a combination of everyone’s feed-forward waves.

If a person could create a reality exactly the way they wanted it, a few things would happen: 1) you would be the only one in it because everybody else would be creating

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David Price
David Price

Written by David Price

I write about creativity, loving, language learning and psycho/spirituality. I’m a longtime painter and reader.

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