I would that I could make the red people as
great as the conception of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that
rules over us all…the true worship of the Creator is doing his will.
Tecumseh
Still
more wonderful is the feeling that we do not have to be specially distinguished
among our fellows in order to be useful and profoundly happy. Not many of
us can be leaders of prominence, nor do we wish to be. Service gladly rendered,
obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the
knowledge that at home or in the world outside we are partners in a
common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human
beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full
return, the certainty that we are no longer isolated and alone in
self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in
round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things--these are the
permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of
pomp or circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be
substitutes. True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the
deep desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.
Twelve
Steps & Twelve Traditions pgs. 124
& 125
Grandfather teach us to walk the good road in humility.