The phrase "a flash of enlightenment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sudden realization or understanding of something.
Example: "After hours of struggling with the problem, I finally experienced a flash of enlightenment that led me to the solution."
Alternatives: "a moment of clarity" or "a sudden insight".
"Then, all of a sudden, in a flash of enlightenment you are able to make sense of what you have been working on for years.
I smiled condescendingly at her need to "resist," until in a flash of enlightenment as sudden as Gautama's I saw through all the pretenses of psychoanalysis — its sterile reductiveness, its hostility to unscripted experience, its vulgar mechanistic recourse to so many ergs of energy stored in the anus or some such tomfoolery.
I smiled condescendingly at her need to "resist," until in a flash of enlightenment as sudden as Gautama's I saw through all the pretenses of psychoanalysis its sterile reductiveness, its hostility to unscripted experience, its vulgar mechanistic recourse to so many ergs of energy stored in the anus or some such tomfoolery.
In Zen, a contemplative sect in Japan that grew out of Chinese Chan ("meditative") Buddhism (both "Chan" and "Zen" are corruptions of the Sanskrit dhyana, "meditation"), adherents attempted to cultivate themselves through strict discipline and training in quasi-yoga intuitive methods, without priestly intervention or divine grace, in order to attain a sudden flash of enlightenment (satori).
I mean, it wasn't a great flash of enlightenment and then suddenly I realized that instead of looking at 22 deals that probably, if I concentrated on three, I might do even better; that I could save some time for quality time and private time with my kids and not just use my house as a weekend service station to recharge my batteries.
Prison stories, on the other hand, have less emotional range: there's hopelessness, mostly, and the occasional flash of enlightenment or redemption.
