Just a quick one, and these are just personal thoughts I'm typing quickly: In terms of your soul being you -- your soul is the true you, your foundation. The ego is then laid on top of it. It's your ego that wants and needs. It's the ego that likes or doesn't like things. The ego tries to lay a historically-based framework of understanding over everything it experiences, where the soul just accepts and is. It's the soul you're not just seeing but connecting with when you are in the presence of a newborn baby. The soul, your soul, is what connects you to the rest of creation, the universe, the divine -- the divine not necessarily being a person with robes, but something that when we open out hearts and souls we experience all the time but just can't put our finger on it. Then our egos tell us this must be horse**** simply because we can't literally put our finger on it.