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Tricycle Daily Dharma September 19, 2013

A Ladder Up

How our representatives spend our taxes reveals in stark black and white our nation's values and concerns. And how we respond to their decisions reveals, too, our own souls, our own deepest values. These responses show where we stand in relation to our neighbors and to those across the country who share our humanity, who look to us for a ladder up from the pains of poverty, illness, and hunger.

- Bhikkhu Bodhi, "The Attack at Home"

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