Keeping Connected to His Contempt

He has a contempt for success, a certain wariness of money-seeking, and even occasions not to do well.  It is as though he might lose some vital aspect, a vestige of what is essential and he would then have no root to what he would so like to believe.  He would be lost among those embodying a value he is afraid to have, a contentment that might rob him of connectedness to poor peoples and lost causes.  It is another aspect of what he calls "keeping the faith."