I haven't posted for a while. This morning, as I was musing on the relationship (or not) between self and Soul, I felt to share this with you. The first paragraph defines it all, so bear with me:

As long as the self separates itself, by positing itself as a subjective centre from which it identifies objects as phenomena, it is bound by this experience to identification with this separate subject-object experience.  Freedom from this identification comes only from the abandonment of this false relationship by allowing a true relationship to occur that is free of the interference of an illusionary self. This occurs only when a completely new volitionally free event takes place. An event that requires the deepest level of allowing, free from a self directed outcome. One then lives and thinks from a unified and universal place that has no centre that we can call a  separate self. There is no longer a volitional interference in the unfolding of life: simply a connection that is expanded from the Soul. This is the ending of suffering, because when we live from the Soul there is no longer an object to suffer. The objectification of the self, as a disconnected subject, is our very suffering. This identification of a separate self, as a subject of experience, produces an object, distinct and discrete from other objects and is the seed of all misery. If this is understood, then it can be further understood that there is no separate one to suffer.

If this is true, then the question arises as to the nature of Self-awareness itself. This requires an understanding of the above paragraph and then one can say that, once this is understood, the self (spelt with a little 's') is the separated identification in a subject-object relationship and the Self (spelt with a capital 'S') is the experience in true connection: that is to say, the Soul.

Therefore, with this being known, one can also say that, in Self-awareness (one's innermost experience of being) there is only room for one type of awareness, the awareness of True Self or Essence. The locus of Self-awareness is Space. This is the province of the Soul, a locus whose centre is everywhere and circumference is infinite. This Self is experienced as unconditioned  and completely free of the little self. Take the shining sun as an example to complete this understanding:

The sun in the sky shines its light equally on all. There is no discrimination as to where the rays put forth their warming light. There is no selfishness in its emanating glory. This is what is meant by lack of self.