# Quote — Robert A. Monroe, Journeys Out of the Body

> Each of the three times I went There, I did not return voluntarily. I came back sadly, reluctantly. Someone helped me return. Each time after I returned, I suffered intense nostalgia and loneliness for days. I felt as an alien might among strangers in a land where things were not "right," where everything and everyone was so different and so "wrong" when compared with where you belonged. Acute loneliness, nostalgia, and something akin to homesickness. So great was it that I have not tried to go There again. Was this heaven?

- Author: [Robert A. Monroe](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-monroe.md)
- Book: [Journeys Out of the Body](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-a-monroe/journeys-out-of-the-body.md)
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