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"The unsatisfactoryness of all ego-centric states of existence...even the most vast and expansive.  Futile, vain goals.  Happiness comes from realizing your true nature. Individual liberation, fulfillment, freedom.  The opening of your mind.  Creating your own meaning "

"Music is thus by no means like the other arts, the copy of ideas,

but rather it is a copy of the will itself,

whose objectivity the ideas are.

This is why the effect of music is so much more powerful and penetrating

than the other arts.  They speak only of shadows, but it speaks of the thing itself"

Schopenhauer

By this statement Schopenhauer is referring to how other artforms- eg. visual, literary, etc. are "representations" of the will, while music alone is the will itself.