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 Reprinted with
permission A.A.W.S. Grandfather teach us to walk the good road in humility.
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