On a lighter and more beautiful note today, here's an excerpt of Gregory's treatise On the Inscription of the Psalms (I.3.19). I'll just let this one speak for itself. Jerry, this one's for you:

"Once I heard a wise person elaborate on an idea about our nature. He said that each person is a miniature universe, having within himself everything that is in the great universe. And the ordered array of the universe is a musical harmony both richly complex and diverse, in tune with itself both in order and in rhythm and is in concord with itself and is never distracted from this symphonic accord even though we may contemplate essential differences in its various components. Just as the musician artistically plucks the strings with a pick, thus bringing forth melody in a rich variety of notes (for there would be no melody if all the strings sounded the same note), so in the same way, the temperament of the universe, which is composed of the richly diverse, particular thing we contemplate - [this temperament] plucks itself by means of an ordered and unchangeable rhythm; and in this way it creates a harmony of all the parts in relation to the whole, and sings this all-encompassing harmony in everything that exists. It is this harmony that the innermost self hears without employing the sense of hearing. Rather by stretching upwards and rising above our fleshly organs of sense, it listens to the hymnody of the heavens."