"When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!""
"The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct."
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Source: Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming”, p.85, Image
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