From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
IMPORTANCE occurs
11 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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1.
... importance.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
Money was the
symbol of
pleasure and
self-
importance.
2.
... importance.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
In
later life he
finds that
real happiness is not to be
found in just
trying to be a
number one
man, or even a
first-
rater in the
heartbreaking struggle for
money,
romance, or
self-
importance.
3.
... importance.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
We no
longer strive to
dominate or
rule those about
us in
order to
gain self-
importance.
4.
... importance and
material success.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
We
must be quite as
careful
when we
begin to
achieve
some
measure of
importance
and
material success.
5.
... importance; because
of the extraordinary possibilities of ...
BB xxv(xxiii),
The Doctor's Opinion
6.
... importance for
most alcoholics are the questions ...
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
7.
... importance, power,
ambition, and leadership.
12&12 p.122,
Step Twelve
Let's here take
note of our
improved outlook upon the
problems of
personal
importance,
power,
ambition, and
leadership.
8.
... importance than
the weight we could collectively ...
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
We
conceive the
survival and
spread of
Alcoholics Anonymous
to be something of far
greater importance than the
weight we
could
collectively throw back of any other
cause.
9.
... importance to
alcoholics, but its application presented ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
10.
... importance to
those afflicted with alcoholic addiction.
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
The
subject presented
in this book
seems to me to be of
paramount importance to
those
afflicted with
alcoholic addiction.
11.
... importance was
no longer our principal aim; ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
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