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... legitimate ambition
to win the battle of ...
12&12
Step Twelve, p.123
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
Working With Others, p.101
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
Step Twelve, p.124
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
Step Four, p.44
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