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title: ▍Where Is Home?
created: 2026-05-25
modified: 2026-06-10
authors: Pico Iyer
category: TED Talk
tags: []
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[[2:51](https://youtu.be/3m6dV7Xo3Vc?t=2m51s)]

> For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil, but a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, ‘Where’s your home?’ I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

[[7:50](https://youtu.be/3m6dV7Xo3Vc?t=7m50s)]

> Home is just not the place where you happen to be born, it is the place where you become yourself.

[[13:31](https://youtu.be/3m6dV7Xo3Vc?t=13m31s)]

> But movement, ultimately, only has a meaning if you have a home to go back to. And home, in the end, is of course not just the place where you sleep. It’s the place where you stand.