We are more than we seem

I was just at another funeral today, I was thinking of how I think about Nate and his smile and sparkle in his eyes.  How I thought as I saw his body before the funeral, how much was missing, and how this "vessel" that was in the casket wasn't the entirety of Nate, how he and what he _really_ was is somewhere else.  I literally heard in my head the words of Yoda, from "Return of the Jedi" (yeah, I'm a nerd):  "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter".