Brilliance/brilliancy is intimately connected to darkness. Indeed, you can ask what is not connected to darkness. Brilliance, however, is seemingly so different from darkness as it is phenomenologically experienced as brilliant light, white glitterings, flashes of insight. And at that last bit we are at the crux: Where do these flashes of insight come from? Where, if not from the unknown, the wide timeless space we sense as a darkness. This is also a pool of possibility; unmanifest stars, to boil it down to light.
One can easily end up hunting for these flashes of insight, to call it that, these glimpses of light that seem to come from nowhere. All understandable. Perhaps it is better to think of brilliance as part of a continuum; or simply as itself, manifesting when it sees fit to do so.
As usual, poets have been here before us. T.S. Eliot has a formulation that keeps popping up in my mind as I ponder this theme: "The surface glittered out of heart of light" (Four Quartets, "Burnt Norton" I).
A sentence that has trailed within me for a while is this: "Resting in the unknown". Sits perfectly with me.
A piece of music I often think about when the theme of brilliance/y crosses my mind, is Stravinsky's Petrushka, played on the piano. Underneath is a brilliant (!) performance by Maurizio Pollini.
One can easily end up hunting for these flashes of insight, to call it that, these glimpses of light that seem to come from nowhere. All understandable. Perhaps it is better to think of brilliance as part of a continuum; or simply as itself, manifesting when it sees fit to do so.
As usual, poets have been here before us. T.S. Eliot has a formulation that keeps popping up in my mind as I ponder this theme: "The surface glittered out of heart of light" (Four Quartets, "Burnt Norton" I).
A sentence that has trailed within me for a while is this: "Resting in the unknown". Sits perfectly with me.
A piece of music I often think about when the theme of brilliance/y crosses my mind, is Stravinsky's Petrushka, played on the piano. Underneath is a brilliant (!) performance by Maurizio Pollini.