Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: As the star is seen as a beautiful but perpetually self-combusting thing , so Tara is perceived at core as the absolute , unquenchable hunger that propels all life .
Simplified: As the star is seen as a beautiful but perpetually self-combusting thing , so Tara is seen at core as the hunger that propels all life .