Concepts Quote by Etienne Gilson

Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of…

— Tara Brach

“For years, home has been idealised as a refuge from the world, somewhere predictable and unchanging. But home isn't just where we go to…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

Any human being exists only as a member of the wider community of life, air, water, and soil. We have no existence apart from…

— Michael Dowd

(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

Home, for me, is not just a place but a feeling.

— Brooke Baldwin

“Presence is the practice of fully inhabiting where you are, with openness and attention, rather than rushing past toward what comes next. Presence does…

— Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World

It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which…

— Sylvia Plath

“The ache for "home" lives inside all of us, to be able to return to our safe place and not have to be stressed…

— José N. Harris

“Humans, even nomadic ones, need a sense of home. Home need not be one place or any place at all, but every home has…

— Eric Weiner

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

— Erik Erikson

“According to this model, human beings are, at least in one aspect, sensation-receiving machines; and although our receptory apparatus is competent to select and…

— Cruce Stark

Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater