They are able to solve all the problems in the world but they cannot pick out the lead theme of a piece of music. They are sensitive to intellectual ideas but not to musical ideas. All of us are almost like children when it comes to understanding music. There is practically no end to this process. With every effort you make, each time you earnestly try, you don't just get a sense but become convinced that you have gone deeper.
Music is unlimited.
You stop trying to get deeper into a piece and after months or even years you discover this music anew. Novalis, German Romantic poet and novelist, is reputed to have said that illness is a musical problem and that through certain sounds man can be brought back into harmony with himself, with the cosmos. But what we do with its contents depends entirely on ourselves. Otherwise, all composers and interpreters would be the healthiest people in the world, but that is of course not so. Something happens to that person's spirit, and nobody can diagnose what really is happening.