Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED

More and more people worldwide are living in countries not considered their own. Writer Pico Iyer -- who himself has three or four "origins" -- meditates on the meaning of home, the joy of traveling and the serenity of standing still.

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[amitnagpal]

"HOME is where all your attempts to escape cease" - Naguib Mahfouz

[sameer]

Home is where your wifi connects automatically.

[chricellwhitney]

This hits me square in the chest. I left 'home' a while now and something in me is aching for a sense of 'home'....to belong to somewhere or something ...for a sense of stillness and to be absolutely sure of where I'm coming from, where/what I belong is so real to me #touched 

[castrocyrax]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Mr. Iyer
home is ME ! home is everything dear i hold inside, HOME is just....my perception, my attitude towards life, the things i appreciate and the good rapport i have with the ppl around me.
home are the the beautiful things, the kind people, nature and animals and the awe inspiring creations that i may find in any geographic location, HOME is in my head.
you can easily be an alien in your own "country" !!

[DimityGirl]

I am a half Malaysian half English from Hong Kong currently living in London. This TED Talk makes so much sense to me.

[CruzzioXT]

This guy is an amazing speaker. And I really loved the message.

[Yizak]

Incredible talk. He has some sort of enthusiasm that could keep me listening for hours.

[davidray]

Dwight Johnson, the man who took Pico to the monastery, took me and my high school philosophy club to that same monastery when I was 15. It was amazing.

[goosegod]

Very nice talk, he is right, stillness brings insight, wisdom and self knowing. The truth is not out there, it is inside...your heart.

[taylorwhyte]

I was born canadian and raised in the southern US. When i moved back to Toronto it slapped me back into consciousness. It made me more aware and tolerant. Then i moved back to the south and it was horrifying how scary how people who are unconscious actually are. Its make me feel horrible how this world has become even though we're more united than we know. Awareness and erasing ignorance can create peace and happiness! We are one and everyone needs to realize this!

[paolavitali]

What a wonderful man, so eloquent. He's a writer known for his travel writing, I'm gonna read some of his books.

[vernonpilgrim]

Good, comforting words for Permanent Exiles, by choice, like myself. Being one is more like an attitude than a way of life, the latter is secondary to it. I have found that things often happen by chance, and the path is taken, or not, and it doesn't really matter! You are home where you stand.

[ngocchaunguyen]

Just read the article "Nowhere Man" by him. This speech is such a nice combination with his writing.

[nuvamusic]

He touches two points. One, the fact of having multi-ethnic, cultural background and having lived in different countries. So you're not belonging to any country in particular, but a citizen of the world, with a wider perspective of things. He had the privilege of education and the ability to travel around. Then he talks about the physical home, it didn't seem to affect him that much when he lost it to the fire, and he could just as well call 'home' a place where he could find himself...

[gordonfrancis]

I love the sound of the hermitage. The wonderful feeling of stillness and tranquillity.

[MarcelleAllen]

Where is home? Where will we stand? I love how his experience brings up powerful questions and ideas for me. It's very true that no matter where we go, there we are and the better we can be, the better we can stand.

[TeQuiiLaSHoTZz]

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
- Thomas Paine

[trinisuprazee]

I was born in Edmonton Alberta, grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, attended middle school in Toronto, Canada and undergrad in Columbus, Ohio. I don't feel like anywhere is my home but have an insatiable appetite for travelling because of my upbringing.

[egidaprecious-juliet]

This was deep and i had to reflect and i tell you, the definition of HOME for me has changed.

[DreamDestinations]

home is where the heart is at the very moment. As a global citizen myself I totally get what he is saying! Also a lot of times it's home is more than the material world - it's in the stillness of the true space within each of us.