A first human look - that’s your innate reaction to something that sets itself apart from the norm. It could be wealth, it could be influence, or it could be looks. It’s whatever makes them impressive or desirable at first glance.

For each soul is such a jewel, which when clear, will reveal all the other souls in existence as well as the net of being that connects us.

Maybe we look into mirrors not merely to seek beauty, regardless how illusive, but to make sure, despite the facts, that we are still here. That the hunted body we move in has not yet been annihilated, scraped out. To see yourself still yourself is a refuge men who have not been denied cannot know.