Everything comes down to light

From the New York Review of Books: “Light is at the beginning … of everything. Most creation myths start with darkness, and then the real beginning comes with light — which means the creation of forms. Which leads to distinguishing one thing from another, and ourselves from the rest of the world. Recognizing patterns, similarities, differences, naming things — interpreting the world. Metaphors — seeing one thing ‘in light of’ something else. Becoming ‘enlightened.’ Light is at the core of who we are and how we understand ourselves.”