Soul

 The “soul” is our truest and most personal identity.  But to get to it, we must go through a process or journey of discarding the clothing of other identities because they do not manifest our authentic self.  They are discovered as a bad fit.  Growing up we tend to put on masks, things exterior to our deepest self, things that are at best only partial of who we are.  The spiritual journey then requires courage and discipline.  Courage, because we do not live up to what others might require us to be for their own false sense of self.  To become an insider to our truest self, we may be required to leave others groups that support a false, partial self.  Alcoholics would call them “drinking buddies!”  Discipline, because it becomes an everyday practice of spiritual formation.  We never really graduate, or rest on our laurels.