What is Brilliance?

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What is Brilliance?
Brilliance
Brilliance is not being able to quote a mathematical theorem, a quip by some famous author of yesteryear, some historical trivia or having the best put downs.

Brilliance is being able to say the right thing at the right time. Even if that time is surrounded by sorrow, anger or fear. Brilliance is doing the right thing at the right time, even if that means sacrifice. Perhaps it’s even doing the right thing at the wrong time because one never knows what the right time is - but we do know what’s the right thing to do.Brilliance isn’t the manipulation of people or gaining power playing on their insecurities or prejudices. It isn’t one-ups manship or having the most people on your side in an argument. It certainly isn’t name calling or being indifferent.

Brilliance is listening to the breeze of thought, debates with ideas, disagreements with tolerance to opposing views. It’s the reverberation of Life, the cacophony of cultures and the streams of consciousness that are a part of the human condition and experience.

Brilliance is the sound of children laughing, a cats purr, a dog lickng your face, your child’s hand in yours, the ocean surf, the smell of home cooked food and music that lights your imagination or ignites your feet in dance. Art that feeds your soul - any form of art. Living is an art.

Brilliance is staring at the stars - miles from civilization and marveling at all that is out there and inside of each of us. It is the quiet reflection each night before sleep and the wonderous revelations in the light of day.

Brilliance isn’t diamonds or gold. It’s treasuring people, feelings and emotions more than things.

Brilliance is…
silence in the dead of night on the beach
the first palette of colors that paint dawn
the last hues as twilight ebbs
understanding another without words
an indescribable kiss
a myriad of touches
subtle
unexpected
unique in each of us
the ripple effect of compassion
empathetic concern
overwhelming when you’re in its presence
a mosaic of whispered words
tears in sympathy
tears of joy
Tears are brilliant in their own right, So many kinds of them.
a deep laugh
sighs of contentment
a lust for life; all its pleasures
the loyalty of those around you
ideas and actions that enrich and liberate
a catalyst for change, nor matter how minute
making a difference - if just to yourself
inspires
desires
simplicity
Brilliance is, knowing what song to sing to soothe a teething baby.
Brilliance is, knowing the sound of an aching soul and being able to harmonize with it.

 

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  1. Jujuba Says:

    u have beautiful pics too ! =)
    thanks !

  2. Matty Says:

    Really good one..
    Keep it up..

  3. Rashi V Says:

    Brilliance isn’t the manipulation of people or gaining power playing on their insecurities or prejudices

    Loved this line!!!!

  4. unpretentious_diva Says:

    @jujuba
    thanks buddy:)
    @matty
    it is always up and going up with me.
    @rashi
    yes those lines are good.

    @all

    Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people! Your own work, not any possible object of your charity. I’ll be glad if men who need it find a better method of living in the house I built, but that’s not the motive of my work, nor my reason, nor my reward! My reward, my purpose, my life, is the work itself - my work done my way! Nothing else matters to me!

  5. Lena Says:

    Brilliance isn’t diamonds or gold. It’s treasuring people, feelings and emotions more than things.
    You cant treasure feelings conditionally, can you? They exist by themselves.

    And to your comment @ all:
    i agree we should love what we do and thats all that matters. But then is unconditional love for what you do selfish? Or is love for what you do conditional? Or rather rational? because if it is rational, then it is not like you love what you do but you love the reasons why you do this and it is not the same, is it?

  6. unpretentious_diva Says:

    @lena

    I should DO what I love, the way I love doing it. Unconditional love is oxymoron, there is nothing like unconditional love.
    Being a mother, a woman loves her child, she loves him because of the reason and satisfaction she feels in loving him.
    If that reason is lost, if the child prooves to be detrimental, if he becomes a criminal a killer a terrorist and radical against reason, she would not flinch to punish him too.
    Reason are always above, and those who denies reasons for unreasonable whimms and desires, always causes corruption miserability and havoc.
    You cannot do that which you don’t love doing.
    If you are forced to do that which you don’t love doing or don’t want to, then it won’t be good enough.
    (it will be just like rape, a girl don’t want it, but she is forced to do sex with the rapist)

  7. Lena Says:

    you dont love your child because it gives you satisfaction. And if she does then seeing someone happy no matter how it affects you or whether you gain anything from can also be derived as satisfaction
    And that’s unconditional love!
    Satisfaction of seeing the ones you love Happy.. No matter what…
    If you gain thats selfish,
    IF you dont gain… thats unconditional…
    But there could be more satisfaction in the latter!
    Its how one derives this satisfaction…

  8. unpretentious_diva Says:

    @lena

    Mothers love is the purest form rational selfishness.
    It is not unconditional love, but it is the most basic reasonable love.

    It is just that you are ignoring the reasons behind it.
    Once when you will realize it, you will feel the strength of love, because it will be reasonable.

    Unconditional love is fakers choice.
    The basic reason is “I”, I love because I exist, I exist because I live.

    If I am not living, I am not existing, I cannot love too.

  9. Lena Says:

    well, then it is like the only reason behind everything is “I live” and that makes everything conditional?
    I wouldnt believe this. I mean yes, without this “I” there wouldnt be love. But there is no “I” in love. There is always “You” or “We”

  10. Lena Says:

    thats true, but “I” is not in the foreground

  11. unpretentious_diva Says:

    You just cannot love anyone if you cannot find that “I” thriving in that “you” or “us”.
    Motherhood, or Parenthood is a responsibility, the love Includes that responsibility.
    If you understand the Importance of “I” then only you can understand the Importance of RESPONSIBILITIES of that “I” as a mother or parent, and then only you can fulfill your “own” responsibilities.
    Without understanding your own responsibility and the sense of “I”, your love will be unworthy.
    To make your love worthy, you need to understand and evolve and innovate yourself the ways of fulfilling those responsibilities a mother or parent must recognize.
    If even once for a while you will ignore that “I” being a mother or parent, and those responsibilities, not only you but the child will also suffer.
    You decide it to be a mother, you do it for your own reason and you take the responsibility of those reason and the satisfaction that responsibilities provides you, and you are answerable to those responsibilities. You even cannot give birth to a child unconditionally. You need to breed and provide a good upbringing to him/her, its your responsibility, and the responsibility of the other parent.

  12. unpretentious_diva Says:

    @lena

    trust me that “I” is in the foreground. without that “I” you won’t recognize your responsibilities as a mother.
    And if you won’t recognize them, how will you fulfill them, how will you try to innovate and better them, how will you think of progressive upbringing and safety and nourishment of the child?
    Even you will be so much selfish towards your responsibilities for the child being the mother “Yourself” that you will feed yourself with a wish to breastfeed the child. Its all sense of “I” which will make you understand and fulfill the responsibilities of being a mother which you yourself will choose to be.

  13. Lena Says:

    well absolutely agree with everything you said. Love is responsibility and only by realising your own important role in this process love is worthy. And well there is a reason behind your decision to become a mother or to start a relationship and it is a reason to be hapy, so in the end it is selfishness, but then when the process begins it is not like you do all things keeping the thought in the mind “What would i gain from it?” because if you you wont be able to build up a long-term relationship, because every reason creates expectations and expectations tend to fail.
    Still it is always about perception. You perceive it one way, i do it another.

  14. Barathsingh Says:

    Brilliant work!! :)
    keep it up

  15. Shiva Says:

    nice blog
    keep posting
    http://www.supershiva.blogspot.com
    http://www.versatilecollection.blogspot.com

  16. Roflin Says:

    brilliance.. hmm

    Vagabond on unknown tides
    And in the sea
    The Sun scattering its untold radiance
    Gleefully with the gulls I shared its brilliance..

    btw
    This template is so smooth.. fida ho gaya…

  17. Stand Up Says:

    how does lemon help?

    25k is actually not 22 miles, its a little over 15. the marathon is 26.2miles, but that is in october, so I have time to prepare for that. So yeah, I dunno about the 25k…especially since I can barely walk today ….it’s weird, cause it’s not like my muscles would usually feel when I can’t walk the next day, it’s just them burning SO much from all the acid…I need to drink more water!!! ahh!!!

    Do you run long distance?

  18. Stand Up Says:

    and oh yeah, it’s snowing HARD out right now. The problem is…it’s pretty, but it’s pretty annoying. I used to see grass!! It’s supposed to be spring time!!! What the heck ever happened to this joke about global warming?!!?!? *pouty faced*

    it’s sticking to. And it’s supposed to snow later on this week too…ugh!

  19. manorath Says:

    hey ur blog has the pattern of a lamp.. u intentionally did that or was dat a coincidence?

    good post dude.. brilliance is what we visualize

  20. unpretentious_diva Says:

    @manorath

    I wanted it to be liked that, that is why it is like that.
    thanks.

  21. Wanderlust Says:

    really good

    keeep posting!!

    :-)

  22. Comfortably Numb Says:

    YEa mbeing brilliant is a Cliche just like those 100 other adjectives….But I guess I wont do any injustice if I just about whisper that this post is somehow brilliant! :P

    And this post reminds me of…

    Before the beginning of an act of great brilliance, there must be hotch potch. And before a brilliant person begins to say/do something really cool, they must look foolish in the crowd.”

    Cheers!

  23. Sushant Says:

    Brilliant post I must say.. Will surely pick up some lessons from it as I am bored of being a dumb. Keep writing…

  24. Jujuba Says:

    hey, I already saw this video. i didn’t like it. it’s boring ..
    ecá !

    i hope see others comments yours !
    see u soon.

    ps: i’ll keep bloggin. don’t have doubt !

  25. a new philosopher is born Says:

    wow….thats one helluva good post….but i enjoyed ur discussion with lena more….somehow i feel u r not letting go ur existential or individualistic view point of life….if u can do that, u can write with more freedom…just a suggestion…

  26. unpretentious_diva Says:

    @philosopher

    Keep your lame idiotic suggestions to yourself.

    I am objectivist I am existentialist.
    And I am I.
    I am I with determination conviction and choice.

    You can surely be one of the sheep of the herd.

    I love to be an Individual, will live like an Individual and will die like an Individual because that is the only reasonable way of living for a Mind.

  27. a new philosopher is born Says:

    ofcourse that shows ur ignorance…..whoever says that giving up of existentialist point of view is equal to being a sheep in the crowd. probably it is ur logic at fault. but then again how can anybody teach u logic to a person who is stubbornly ignorant.
    existentialism has become history. individual no longer exists. it does not mean society exists. it is abt looking ahead from there. how can society exist if indviduals dont exist. look ahead. there is a whole ocean of truth lying ahead. ofcourse like always u can be foolhardy and stupid, and cling on to ur individualistic philosophy. that only means, u have become just one of them. u have become exactly what u dont want to become. choice is urs.

  28. unpretentious_diva Says:

    @the new dumb

    individual no longer exists.
    idiot you are saying that I don’t exist.

    Who is typing then?

    get a brain check you are too much indulged in illusions.

    Only I exists, society never existed, and will never exist.
    Society is a imaginary human construct.
    Just like religionism, socialism or communalism, any sort of collectivism is a falsehood and illusionary and corruption.

    and obviously you are a corrupt individual, corrupt to that extent that now you are even unable to realize your own individuality.

    Pity on you (ohh well you even don’t exists as you said)

    people have fixed ideas. worse people have limited logic.
    they refuse to think more than what has been taught and what they have read.

    You are the biggest example of such people.
    But then you even don’t exist and you deny your existence as a person as an individual.

    Only Individual exists, society never existed, and will never exist.
    Society is a imaginary human construct.
    Just like religionism, socialism or communalism, any sort of collectivism is a falsehood and illusionary and corruption.

    and obviously you are a corrupt individual, corrupt to that extent that now you are even unable to realize your own individuality.

    The thing is you are one of those who can only follow others, you can niether innovate nor ever can develop any idea further. Because, you deny the power by which an Individual can innovate, develop and improove things ideas and possibilities.

    For an Individual, all the previous knowledge is raw material which he by the virtue of his own rational faculty analysis and understands and then creates, innovates develops further knowledge ideas, things technologies arts.
    That rational faculty, that Individuality, that power of reasoning which is the only tool by virtue of which a living individual can understand and realize reality, is his tool his power.
    But you have denied it already.
    Hence nothing is expected from you.

    You are neither living nor existing.

  29. Sushant Says:

    I just have few lines to say on what you wrote about society. Society is first and foremost not a creation of a conscious and intelligent mind, It is created and driven by the quest of survival which has been the primary target of all living beings inhabiting the earth. Right from the tiniest bacterial cell to the ntelligent human beings all work in a framework which maximize their chances of survival. A individual living entity is uniquely able and will perform a particular task better than the other so there is a division of labor and hence the society forms automatically. It is there and our acceptance or rejection of its presence does not make a difference to it.

    However we as humans do value Individual liberty which is based on rules of open and free society . It is just that social structure provides a limit to it. But a completely free society is not viable as a complete communist regime. Its just that we exist in between two of these with one of them contracting and the other expanding randomly over the course of human history.

  30. unpretentious_diva Says:

    But a completely free society is not viable as a complete communist regime. Its just that we exist in between two of these with one of them contracting and the other expanding randomly over the course of human history.

    it is not so.
    complete free society is not only viable but practical too, and Infact only such society is viable and practical, all other system are grossly failure, including indian socio-democratic system or american socio-democratic system, which is nothing much different than statism.

    In US Libertarians have started a project called Free State Project, during which more than 20,000 Libertarians will move to New Hampshire in next 5 years.

    The motto of New Hampshire is “Live Free or Die”, it has Zero percent state income tax, people have already started to move in there. 
    http://www.freestateproject.org/intro

    A lot of Libertarian radio talk shows are being run from New Hampshire.
    You can listen to their shows through podcast.

    Its also a home for Anarchy Now Project:
    http://anarchyhouseproject1.org/home

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ojKOFSh1zqU

  31. unpretentious_diva Says:

    quest of survival is a work of mind.
    and society is nothing but a imaginary human construct which can never exist.
    and all the class and creed and caste and race, religion discrimination you are demanding for on the behalf of society/collectivism are just a curse.
    The Individual decides what he can do the best, society can not, becos society just don’t exist. the collective groups although may exercise looting mooching begging and extorting the Individual and his abilities and freedom to use his aquired skills, but it will be opposed from time to time until the ghost of this imaginary human construct won’t be removed completely.

    anyways, you are still under its influence.

  32. unpretentious_diva Says:

    Society is a human construct because Human, as Individuals gathered upon to look up for their individual beneits and progress on a consentfull notion, that system they named society, but it never surpassed and can never surpass Individuality, because while Individual is natural, society is human construct.

    The creation of that Human construct (society) was not done to subvert and control the Individual, but the civilisation was constructed to provide more and more freedom to the Individual, and the safety of the Individual. That was/is the basic work of civilisation.
    with the advancement and improvement of civilisation, the Individual freedom must and should be (and in reality actually is) being stregthened and improvised, because that is the real purpose of the human construct society/civilisation.

    For no reason an Individual must sacrifice hisself for the society, because reasonable is the protection of the Individual by the society.
    Democracy was the previous attempt to gain it, but it is old now and mostly a failure because of the statism and extortionist tendencies of statist governmental system of socialism/communalism or red-carpetism..
    The next step is surely Miniarchy or anarcho-capitalism.

  33. a new philosopher is born Says:

    i always suspected u r a fool who is pretending to be intelligent….and u just proved that…
    if a simple concept as individual does not exist does not make sense to u, u r the greatest fool and stupid on earth….and this comes as no surprise.
    though i know logic is wasted on u, i will still explain not because u will understand ( which i know u cant) because probably few of ur readers may understand. probably if u ever had a dream. and in dream u were writing a blog, then probably in the dream itself u might have readers. but then u dont really exist in ur dream. it is not real. real as in physical reality. so even though u act smart and pretend to be smart, u still dont exist. and things that dont exist can act. i know u will still deny it. and that would be a sad choice….

  34. a new philosopher is born Says:

    @gross ignoramus,
    even socrates said - all i know is i know nothing. and u r sure of the existence of reality!!! that simply goes to say where ur logic system stands….anyways…..i am just questioning this reality thats why questions begin with if and but…..if u cant question reality and hang on to ur existence thats ur folly……
    try answering questions like - what is reality, what is an individual, what does my existence mean with respect to a very absolute frame of reference say, a distant star. and u will realise the folly of ur arguements. to be honest, most people like u are trained in thought process by people and often lack the conviction to question their strongest beliefs. can u prove that individual exist but i can that he neednot. in any theorem, it is enough to give an example to disprove a theory, and my dream example is one. u have no arguements against it, except the one u had - which is - i cant accept it hence it is wrong. i deal with scientists and philosphers at every day of my life, where we question everything. it comes easier for us to question the fundamental truth of any nature. however, for some reasons, u want to hold on to a theory which doesnt even has a basis. all u have to say is - i am right because i am right. suit urself.

  35. unpretentious_diva Says:

    @the culprit new dumb

    I knew you have no knowledge about logic and no sense about reason.
    You live in dream and will die in dream you surely have no existence, and you will never gain existence.
    The Individual is not the imagination of dreams of some idiot like you though.

    Your all logic will always start with “if” and “but” as various permutations and combinations which actually don’t exists.

    But the reality do exist.

    Its not a dream, a reality, though you can keep sleeping as it doesn’t affect anyone you don’t exist.

    the problem with you is, you think that you are saying something new or proposing some new concept, but it is not.
    You are just ignoring Individualism to deny your own responsibilities, you are an escapist who keeps looking for sides to hide away after acting wrong.
    You are a looser a lost soul.
    You are so much frustrated with your reality that you want to mention it as a dream and want to live in some dream of virtual existence (or inexistence) as you may name.

    but that is not the thing, when a dreamer like you rapes a girl for his irresponsible unreasonable desire, that crime may be a dream for him and he may beg for mercy on behalf of his disillusioned situations, but that victim that girl, will feel the pain the degradation in REALITY, it won’t be a dream. For a dream she cannot demand justice, and that is why, for the sake of your purpose to safeguard the crimes and criminals like your ownself, you want to term it as dream and want to deny the individual responsibility of that criminal.

    Just remembered the character of that sadhu of the recently released movie “Halla Bol”, he denies to give his statement against the rapists, although he saw them committing the crime, and when the central character demands him to tell the truth, he says “Jagat Mithya,
    Sab asatya hai, to mai kya sach kahun”

    You are no better than the criminals.

    as if some terrorist planted a bomb and killed people in Kashmir and you feel it as a dream and as easy as that terrorist felt it.

    But the real pain and loss which the victim will suffer is no dream.

    The extremity is, when you will be having finer moments, you won’t call it a dream, you will enjoy your better moments with utmost attentiveness.

    People like you are those types who will ignore a person dieing on road cos of accident, as it will also be a dream only for you that Individual suffering the pain and injury won’t exist for you and you will keep a blind eye. Dreaming and dreaming more.

    You can never understand logic or reason, because reason justifies the reality and differentiates the reality from dreams.

  36. a new philosopher is born Says:

    @confused and pretntious diva -
    ofcourse these are the typical arguements of a lesser mortal - just because individuals dont exist does not mean u dont act - which i had previously mentioned - like the act of writing this comment. i dont exist. this blog doesnt. it still is possible for me to act.
    ofcourse what i am saying is nothing new. infact it is widely stated fact. it is very apparent if u can only read - sophie’s world. so i propose nothing new. i have only rediscovered what is apparent. and how can truth be new or old. truth if it exists, exists. it cannot be classified as new or old.
    and talking abt road accidents, terrorists blah blah…u r absolutely confused. action and existence are two things. i may not exist, but then then i can act. as i do that the act becomes unreal.
    u even dont me, abt what i do in the social sphere, which again doesnt exist. but i can act and be courteuos and helpful and gel with the world. because individual and society both dont exist.
    but whatever u said holds perfectly for u. u will let a person die on the road, because for u , only u exist….( a sad reminder of albert camus - the starnger )
    infact now that i mention, u r not even arguing against me, u r arguing against urself, trying to hold on to ur belief. as for me, to me my arguements have no significant importance. i am just having a good laugh at ur expense….and i should thank u for that. because, not only that u r making me laugh, u r also proving some of the arguements abt the kind of stuff people are made of , their typical reactions, which we had proposed some six years ago, as right.
    thank u dear

  37. unpretentious_diva Says:

    lol

    So as guessed, you are running behind absolutes.
    haha and you don’t exist still you can act.

    good keep making jokes.

    I exist and that is why you exist for me thats why I am answering you idiot.

    but for you niether you exist nor anything else. still for your sake of useless ilogical arguments you can dream that without existing you can act. but when you even dont exist how can you act.

    You will say “Prani to Nimmitt maatra hai, karta to koi aur hee hai”
    I know dhongis like you.

    keep thriving in the dreams of that superpower by virtue of which you can act without even existing
    and so will exist the person.

  38. Sushant Says:

    @diva

    I see society as a natural formation because it is present not only in humans but in animals,birds insects and anything I can think of. The survival of a species depends on how well they can adapt and survive in this ever changing world. We as humans and earlier as chimps developed so fast because we were able to harness the power of collective effort where each individual will master a specific trait and will supply that and will get safe,secure and free life. Individual freedom was more confined in pre-historic eras and the renaissance lead to developments which advocated human liberty and freedom. We have come a long way from there and at least a sizable human population enjoys optimal liberty and freedom and I hope more and more of the world population will join them.

    Democracy is just one of the ways to maximize individual freedom within the limits of social responsibility. Perhaps we may come up with better governing systems in future but till then this is our best option.
    We as complex beings will always need a system where different people do different things and we depend on each other. I can not imagine living in a place where I will have to grow my own food, sew my own clothes, construct my own house and guard my own home. Even the power of communication developed because of our interdependence on each other. So for good or bad society needs individual caliber to grow and progress and individual will need social framework to live and perform. They are in fact different sides of same coin.

    @ philoshpher

    Calling someone fool will not make you intelligent or smart. In fact it is quite clear who is a fool in this discussion. You have a right to have your own philosophy but to think people will agree to it only because you are stating it is not only childish but idiotic.

  39. a new philosopher is born Says:

    - i am having fun too….basically because i dont know how u manage to get a million other things that i have not said and ignore everything i have said- supernatural —  — whatever is that…..that does not exist either….lol
    -@susant - u dont even have a valid arguement - so i ignore ur comments…its not even worth my time commenting on u

  40. unpretentious_diva Says:

    @sushant
    Human society and ants colony differs alot.
    and the definition of nature which you are using is relative, according to you whatever is not man made is natural.
    (Human society is manmade)
    ants society is ants made.
    Human is the building block.
    The Individuals acts in typiication (or mental representations of each others actions) for their mutual individual benefits and these typifications eventually become habitualized into reciprocal roles played by the actors/individuals in relation to each other.
    theory of social construction by Emile Durkheim

    But it is habit , not necessity, that is why the society keeps changing. and traditions keeps forming. because human by nature is Individual by virtue of his rational faculty, he has power to testify and check each and every of his action and regulate his habbits.
    Ants cannot do it. Microbes animals cannot do it.

    that is why the colonies of ants and animals are still not developed.

  41. unpretentious_diva Says:

    @the new criminal
    yes for you ignorance is bliss.

    be in that bliss and enjoy the dreams.

  42. Sushant Says:

    I agree to the fact that human intellect and consciousness allows us to validate our actions objectively but what I am suggesting is that an individual validation may be against the social will but it does not make either of them correct or wrong. Social rules and regulations may at times threaten individual liberty and meaningless freedom will lead to anarchy.

    @new philospher

    I wrote to you only as a visitor to this blog for you calling people fool because they don’t agree to your beliefs. My argument was not in context of your illusionary and existential ****. I generally feel sorry for the idiots but not for those who are proud of it.

  43. unpretentious_diva Says:

    @sushant
    and anarcho-capitalism or Miniarchy is the aim of civilisation, you may call it autonomy too.

  44. Dagny Says:

    Wonderful poem.

    You are very talented. :)

  45. Ruchi Sharma Says:

    I agree with dagny! :)

  46. Sri Says:

    Very meaningful!
     Awesome:)

  47. Sri Says:

    Hi “a new philosopher” ,
    Please mind your words! 
    I just wanted to remind u and whoever reads this that u r such a big idiot and moreover if u cant accept it please be a competitor and drop a line.
    “yuck”

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