Very clearly the lis­tener real­izes that only the ar­eas of a higher mu­si­cal or­der bring him more joy and greater hap­pi­ness.
There­fore, his de­ci­sion as to the path is not really a matter of much con­sid­era­tion; the ques­tion of whether to take the path to­wards an in­fe­rior mu­si­cal or­der, or to remain on the same level, or to fol­low the path to re­gions of a su­pe­rior mu­si­cal or­der, an­swers it­self from his ex­peri­ence: cer­tainly, he will natu­rally de­cide for greater per­sonal joy.
Ob­jec­tively, how­ever, the choice re­mains with him.

We know from ex­peri­ence that now and then man chooses the more un­com­fort­able, the more com­pli­cated, the less ful­fill­ing, the uglier, the meaner, the more life­less – be­cause of some outer, in­tel­lec­tual con­sid­era­tion he be­lieves that in the end he will still draw a greater gain from such choice; he hopes that by choos­ing the un­com­fort­able he will still reap more joy and greater hap­pi­ness in the end.

The clas­si­cal com­poser does not build on such con­sid­era­tions; he thinks they are too com­pli­cated and there­fore unprac­ti­cal, if the joy of his lis­tener is con­cerned. For his mu­sic lis­tener, the com­poser aims at the di­rect way to in­ner hap­pi­ness and in­ner joy; he knows that, for hap­pi­ness to last, the first pre­req­ui­site lies in the co­or­di­na­tion of the lis­tener with the prime forces of na­ture, i.e. in the mu­si­cal unison of the mu­sic lis­tener with the in­fi­nite har­mony – in the lis­tener be­ing one with his uni­ver­sal self.

From the view­point of the mu­sic crea­tor then, eve­ry­thing for his mu­sic lis­tener re­sults from it­self; be­cause in the same way as, with the com­poser, the proc­ess of cre­at­ing mu­sic from the level of his self-knowl­edge very natu­rally fol­lows cos­mic laws of un­fold­ment, the joyful, crea­tive will of the lis­tener fol­lows the same com­pre­hen­sive, natu­ral laws of un­fold­ment from the height of his pure self-cog­ni­tion – once he has reached the mu­si­cal height of the har­mony – and there­fore moves with­out re­sis­tance in ac­cor­dance with na­ture.