Before the fall, Adam and Eve's voices rang out with the sound of every harmony.  If they had remained in that state, singing in their joy, evil would have been erased from the world.  For the soul is symphonic and music is divine.

-- Mary Sharratt, Illuminations

Music was cosmic, for it embraced the universe,
reaching from earth to highest heaven in a pillar of praise.

-- Mary Sharratt, Illuminations

The soul is symphonic.  Such is the sweetness of music that it banishes human weakness and fear, and draws us back to our original state of grace, reuniting us with heaven.

-- Mary Sharratt, Illuminations

There is Music of Heaven in all things
and we have forgotten to hear it
until we sing.

-- Hildegard von Bingen