"One day I was sitting in a motel in middle America, and it was one of
those really plastic Holiday Inn type places, and I had arrived and I
went into my room and I sat down and set up my little puja table and you
know, all that stuff. Moving the menu and stuff, and it was kind of
depressing, and I thought, 'Well, a few more weeks and I'll be done with
this tour and I can go home.' And then I saw the pain that that thought
was creating for me.
So I got up and I walked out of the room, closed the door, walked down
the hall, turned around, came back, unlocked the door and yelled, 'I’m
home!' And I came in and I sat down, and I looked and, you know, I
wouldn’t have decorated particularly this way, but what the hell, you
know? I thought, if I’m not at home in the universe, boy, I got a
problem. If I say, 'I can only be home here, not there.'
What is home? Home is where the heart is. Home is the quality of presence. It’s the quality of being wherever you are. "
- Ram Dass
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