From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
URGENT occurs
6 times
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1.
... urgent importance
to alcoholics, but its application ...
BB xxvii(xxv),
The Doctor's Opinion
2.
... urgent need
for continuous effectiveness and permanent ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
Therefore, no
society of
men
and
women ever had a more
urgent need for
continuous effectiveness and
permanent unity.
3.
... urgent questions,
"How can A.A. best function?" ...
BB p.561(563),
Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition
4.
... 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.
5.
... 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.
6.
... 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.
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