An idea from The World as Will and Representation

Sometimes the wanting stops. You look at a tree or a painting and forget, for a while, that you need anything from it. You become just an eye taking in the kind of thing it is, what Plato called its Idea, and the pain of wanting goes quiet.

From The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

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