What is the soul and how may I approach it?

[Sacred Fool]

1)  It does get easier as we go and we should really say this to everyone who struggles. It sounds so cliche; but it really is true. The average human being is wearing an infinite amount of heavy coats and when you are down to your last two coats to be removed, you sort of understand what needs to be done and look forward to shedding it. Hence, it gets easier as we go.

2)  And yes of course, I think you know who you are, who you are becoming and who you once were. It seems so to me.

1)  Yes, that's true on the level you're speaking about, and, there's more.  The heavy labor does become easier, and this leads to more subtle work, and this leads to work of greater subtlety.  This work can certainly be painful as well, although not so much the blunt force trauma of the earlier work.  But it can have wracking resonance due to the higher dimensional echo chambers of the upper chakras.
  
2)  Well, on the one hand, I am more seated in the awareness that this incarnation is a projection of a denser self (or of denser selves), but I am far, far from knowing who I am, I feel.  It's as though as you climb higher in the tower, your view of the landscape alters considerably.  Maybe at one level you can only see the shrubbery, then higher you can see the trees, then you can see above the trees and so on.  What we miss so often when hardening our thoughts of how upper levels appear is that our own experience of self and our concept of what self is changes so much that these early thoughts just don't have much bearing on the actual experience.  So, they look a certain way, but because the experience of self is so different, the experience of these denser avenues of consciousness is much different than we might suppose.

I guess I'm trying to say that I know that I don't know who I am.....much.