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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

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URGENT   occurs   6 times    (Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
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... urgent importance to alcoholics, but its application ...   BB xxvii(xxv), The Doctor's Opinion   Display entire Doctor's Opinion
We doctors have realized for a long time that some form of moral psychology was of urgent importance to alcoholics, but its application presented difficulties beyond our conception.


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... urgent need for continuous effectiveness and permanent ...   BB p.561(563), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
Therefore, no society of men and women ever had a more urgent need for continuous effectiveness and permanent unity.


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... urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" ...   BB p.561(563), Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition   Display entire Appendix I
The "12 Traditions" of Alcoholics Anonymous are, we A.A.'s believe, the best answers that our experience has yet given to those ever-urgent questions, "How can A.A. best function?" and, "How can A.A. best stay whole and so survive?"

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... urgent requirement which could supply us with ...   12&12 p.120, Step Twelve
When our drinking had become much worse, money was only an urgent requirement which could supply us with the next drink and the temporary comfort of oblivion it brought.

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... urgent than ever.   12&12 p.55, Step Five
If we have swept the searchlight of Step Four back and forth over our careers, and it has revealed in stark relief those experiences we'd rather not remember, if we have come to know how wrong thinking and action have hurt us and others, then the need to quit living by ourselves with those tormenting ghosts of yesterday gets more urgent than ever.

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... urgent thing is that we make a ...   12&12 p.68, Step Six
The only urgent thing is that we make a beginning, and keep trying.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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