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

> It is the purity of a truth of which you have had only a glimpse. This is the feast, and the tiny tidbits you tasted before, back there, had made you hope for the existence of the Whole. The nameless emotion, longing, nostalgia, sense of destiny that you felt back there when you stared at the cloud layered sunset in Hawaii, when you stood quietly among the tall, waving trees in the silent forest, when a musical selection, passage, or song recalled memories of the past or brought forth a longing for which there was no associated memory, when you longed for the place where you belonged, whether city, town, country, nation, or family—these are now fulfilled. You are Home. You are where you belong. Where you always should have been.

- 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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