The place of rage and hate

[Mudhammam]

So will as the expression of one's nature, rather than as the arbitrary ability to overcome it?

That's my basic understanding from reading his works. Schopenhauer envisions Will as Kant's 'Ding an sich,' comparable to the Atman of the Upanishands or the Logos of ancient Greece and Hellenistic Judaism; it is the centripedal force or principle of order in nature made manifest through representation, including our intellectual understanding. In Schopenhauer's view, Will, or nature, is free in the sense that it continually creates and destroys independent of any overarching guidance; such would merely be another, more powerful Will. However, it does so through constraints imposed by the manifest representation (reality, whether material or immaterial), which includes such fundamental concepts as causality, and subsequently, our competing wishes and instincts. This conflict is felt within us, who feel free and are yet constrained, as we are an embodiment of Will revealed through Representation.