4/14/2005: The most comfortable place...

... for anyone is within themselves, that I've always believed. You must be most at ease in your aloneness. It should be the friendliest, most nurturing place to be --- for when the world proves too harsh, people too untrustworthy -- at least you have a place you can always go back to. You are your own sanctuary. When you have nothing else, YOU are always who you are left with. If you can't stand that, what can you stand? If you are at peace with yourself, comfortable in your own skin, that gives you courage to take on just about anything in the world.