Work is not your enemy but your friend. How you work, not what you do, determines the course of your life. You may work grudgingly or you may work gratefully; you may work as a human or you may work as a robot. There is no work so rude that you may not exalt in it; no work so demeaning that you cannot breathe soul into it; no work so dull that you may not enliven it. Never be tempted to diminish your efforts; always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
... the part that I worry about is that most people live on the level of the self and not the level of the soul, which is the costume of personality over the soul. It's what the self is... It's the performance of personhood, not the essence of personhood.
And today most people lead with identities and opinions, which I think are the least interesting, least true parts of people, because they're the most mutable and the least anchored in what you call the soul.