What constitutes a sense of place? ?

Question

Where is a place that is significant to you?

Why is it significant to you?

What factors have been important to how you understand this place? How is your understanding of this place reflected by the language in which you use to describe it?

How might others from different cultures view this place differently to yourself?

In general, what constitutes a 'sense of place'?

Answer 1

My place is more than just a location. It is also a time, more specifically it is Here and Now. It is my complete and total awareness of this place and time. I exist only in the Here and Now. The past is gone as well as the place I occupied then. The future is a place waiting for its time to place me there. This moment is as it should be with me completely present in this place of time and place of mind. I am near the past and future, in transition from where I came. This time and place are only movements of time and space in-between past and future. Transitioning always from the perspective of both Time past and time ahead, are only constructs of a mind trying to define my place in a fleeting moment in time. These concepts are contemplated simultaneously. Only to be lost before a concrete solution is found I have lost both the place and time. If I can exist in a state of Timeless Thoughtless Emptiness, I can be nowhere and everywhere in a state of timeless non-location that has always existed. For Time is a necessary construct of a feeble mind trying to define and control abstract concepts out of a fear of the unknown.