We cease to perceive water that continually flows, We hear our innermost wellspring, which flows forth from God, only when we make a conscious effort. This is why the saying of the Pythagoreans that the wise man perceives the music of the spheres is a truly religious saying. We should always be hearing, as with bodily ears, the gurgling wellspring of our origin in God.
Hans Urs von Balthasar, The Grain of Wheat: Aphorisms (1953), chapter titled God