Carta a Théo (La noche estrellada)

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a beautiful explanation as to why Van Gogh’s masterpiece has resonated for over a century.

“You know what I like about The Starry Night?

It’s not what Van Gogh saw that night, it’s what he felt.

[The painting] is not a representation of reality and anything that deviates from is reality that has filtered through ... See more

Poetry and the arts—like the right kind of prayer—can help us to stay with grief long enough to feel its sweetness, long enough for the sweetness and grief to deepen our sensitivity to the exquisite agony and ecstasy that we call appreciation, praise, love … and life. We will find or write and recite the poems and prayers that resonate most deeply

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These things, like my mushroom trip, weren’t meant to be labeled and sorted easily in our minds. The word Campbell uses for this type of thinking is “transrational.” It’s not irrational, it’s beyond rationality. It’s not blueprints to build a bridge, it’s crying at a song that doesn’t have any words. We’re like dogs trying to understand the interne

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