Without the suffering, which seems the requisite for psychological and spiritual maturation, one would remain unconscious, infantile and dependent.  Yet many of our addictions, ideological attachments and neuroses are flights from suffering.  James Hollis

I ask my self

fragment

the Unconscious aspects

in which        I

~between~

remain:

is he

toxic

or stimulating?

Both.

It is the island

around which

he swims.