Bare awareness belongs to the self while life belongs to the soul. As the body is made out of the material substance of the world the soul is made up out of its spiritual substance, the limits of whose dimensions are of indefinite extent. You are the soul, at least in so far as that is what speaks here, but the soul may not have any life of its own, its light is borrowed from elsewhere, from the world or from the self. Soul and world are compact, each goes its own way but they share a destiny.