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Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
LEGITIMATE occurs
4 times
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1.
... legitimate ambition
to win the battle of ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
As to our
grandiose behavior, we
insisted
that we had been
possessed of
nothing but a
high and
legitimate ambition to
win the
battle of
life.
2.
... legitimate reason
for being there.
BB p.101,
Working With Others
So our
rule is not to
avoid a
place where there is
drinking, if we have a
legitimate reason for being there.
3.
... legitimate satisfactions
of right living for which ...
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
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 and
circumstance, no
heap of
material possessions, could
possibly be
substitutes.
4.
... legitimate security
and a happy family life.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
These people often
throw to the
winds every
chance for
legitimate security and a
happy family life.
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