"Must"

"Must" appears many times in the Big Book, along with a few "absolutes."

This doesn't refer to our requirements for working the Program.

It just lets us concentrate on what we can do, not on what we can't.

The Great Reality Deep Down Within Us

Deep down in every man, woman, and child is the fundamental idea of God.
It may be obscured by calamity, by pomp, by worship of other things, but in some form or other it is there.
For faith in a Power greater than ourselves, and miraculous demonstrations of that of that power in human lives, are facts as old as man himself. . .
We found the Great Reality deep down with us.
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, p. 55

The power within me is far greater than any fear before me.