And we might think, look, this is one of the negative things about the human condition that we get a taste of life — nothing more — before it's snatched away.

There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old.

Their bodily forms are indeed like the different "tastes" of the elixir, having been influenced by the diverse channels of karmic action down which they have flowed from one life to the next.