From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... make a
beginning, and keep trying.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
2.
... make a
beginning as soon as you ...
12&12 p.61,
Step Five
3.
... make a
beginning on this lifetime job.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
So Step Six -- "Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character" --
is A.A.'s way of stating the best possible attitude one can take in order to make a beginning on this lifetime job.
4.
... make a
brand new venture into open-mindedness.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
If we would gain any real advantage in the use of this Step on problems other than alcohol, we shall need to make a brand new venture into open-mindedness.
5.
... make a
burning issue out of such ...
BB p.135,
The Family Afterward
She sees she was wrong to
make a burning issue out of such a matter when his more serious ailments were being rapidly cured.
6.
... make a
careful review of our progress ...
12&12 p.89,
Step Ten
Then there are those occasions when alone, or in
the company of our sponsor or spiritual adviser, we make a careful review of our progress since the last time.
7.
... make a
decision and tell his story, ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
Let him know you are available if he wishes to
make a decision and tell his story, but do not insist upon it if he prefers to consult someone else.
8.
... make a
decision to turn our will ...
12&12 p.38,
Step Three
So it is by circumstance rather than by any virtue that we have been driven to A.A., have admitted defeat, have acquired the rudiments
of faith, and now want to make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to a Higher Power.
9.
... make a
face-to-face admission of our wretched ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
We got a pretty severe shock when we realized that we were preparing to make a face-to-face admission of our wretched conduct to those we had hurt.
10.
... make a
fair start on the new ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
Perhaps your husband will make a fair start on the new basis, but just as things are going beautifully he dismays you by coming home drunk.
11.
... make a
full revelation would seriously harm ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
That will arise in the occasional situation
where to make a full revelation would seriously harm the one to whom we are making amends.
12.
... make a
fuss over them.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
13.
... make a
general admission of our defects.
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
14.
... make a
living, we had a feeling ...
BB p.52,
We Agnostics
We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we
had a feeling of uselessness, we were full
of fear, we were unhappy,
we couldn't seem to be of real
help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
15.
... make a
mighty beginning, and he senses ...
12&12 p.109,
Step Twelve
His own character may still be gravely defective, but he somehow
knows that God has enabled him to make a mighty beginning, and he
senses that he stands at
the edge of new mysteries, joys, and experiences of which he had never even dreamed.
16.
... make a
public statement exonerating his rival?
BB p.80,
Into Action
17.
... make a
rough survey of his conduct ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Using his best judgment of what has been right and what has been wrong,
he might make a rough survey of his conduct with
respect to his primary
instincts for sex, security, and society.
18.
... make a
serene and useful existence, at ...
12&12 p.121,
Step Twelve
And these were fears which would make a serene and useful existence, at any financial level, quite impossible.
19.
... make a
serious attempt to probe them, ...
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
20.
... make a
settlement with the fundamental principle ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
21.
... make a
skeptic out of anyone.
BB p.83,
Into Action
22.
... make a
vigorous attempt to repair the ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
First, we take a look backward and try to discover where we have
been at fault; next we make a vigorous attempt to repair the damage we have done; and third, having thus cleaned away the debris of the past, we consider how, with our newfound knowledge of ourselves, we may develop
the best possible relations with every human being we know.
23.
... make A.A.
itself your 'higher power.'
12&12 p.27,
Step Two
24.
... make A.A.
more effective, how to do ...
12&12 p.178,
Tradition Ten
Let it be noted, too, that
they were almost always concerned with ways to make A.A. more
effective, how to do the most good for the most alcoholics.
25.
... make alcoholics
of our kind like other ...
BB p.30,
More About Alcoholism
Neither does there appear
to be any kind of treatment which will make alcoholics of our kind like other men.
26.
... make all
the other hours of our ...
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
For these minutes and sometimes hours spent in self-examination are bound to
make all the other hours of our day better and happier.
27.
... make alliances,
or enter public controversies.
BB xix,
Foreword to Second Edition
28.
... make amends.
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
29.
... make amends.
BB p.76,
Into Action
30.
... make amends
as fast and as far ...
12&12 p.87,
Step Nine
But all of them do require a complete willingness
to make amends as fast and as far as may be possible in a given set of conditions.
31.
... make amends
quickly if we have harmed ...
BB p.84,
Into Action
32.
... make amends
to them all."
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
33.
... make amends
to them all.
BB p.59,
How It Works
34.
... make amends
where we have done harm, ...
BB p.69,
How It Works
We must be willing to make amends where we have done harm, provided that we do not bring about still more harm in so doing.
35.
... make an
accurate and really exhaustive survey ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Though in some cases we
cannot make restitution
at all, and in some cases action ought to be deferred, we should nevertheless make an accurate and really exhaustive survey of our
past life as it has affected other people.
36.
... make any
difference.
BB p.108,
To Wives
We realize some men are thoroughly bad-intentioned, that no amount of patience will make any difference.
37.
... make any
wife or child neurotic.
BB p.122,
The Family Afterward
A doctor said to us, "Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic.
38.
... make astonishing
recoveries and become our greatest ...
12&12 p.140,
Tradition Three
How could we know that thousands of these sometimes frightening
people were to make astonishing recoveries and become our
greatest workers and intimate friends?
39.
... make back
in the 1920's.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
Handing it to me, he continued, 'This shows the
kind of money the hospital used to make back in the 1920's.
40.
... make-believe have
eventually seen the childishness of ...
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Those of us who have spent
much time in the world of spiritual make-believe have eventually seen the childishness of it.
41.
... make clear
three pertinent ideas:
BB p.60,
How It Works
Our description of the alcoholic, the chapter to
the agnostic, and our personal adventures before and after make clear three pertinent ideas:
42.
... make contact
with or take membership in ...
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Though the family has no religious connections, they may wish
to make contact with or take membership in a religious body.
43.
... make daily
living with us as practicing ...
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
Such a roster of harms done others -- the kind that make daily living with us as practicing alcoholics
difficult and often unbearable -- could be extended almost indefinitely.
44.
... make direct
personal contact at all.
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be other cases where action ought to be deferred, and still others in which by the
very nature of the situation we shall never be able to make direct personal contact at all.
45.
... make each
of them wish to retaliate, ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
And do not his actions make
each of them wish to retaliate, snatching
all they can get out of the show?
46.
... make few
social engagements.
BB p.105,
To Wives
47.
... make for
usefulness.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
48.
... make good.
BB p.78,
Into Action
49.
... make good.
BB p.118,
To Wives
50.
... make good.
BB p.146,
To Employers
51.
... make good
Twelfth Step work possible, perhaps ...
12&12 p.110,
Step Twelve
We can be the ones who take on
the unspectacular but important tasks that make good Twelfth Step work possible, perhaps arranging for the
coffee and cake after the meetings, where so
many skeptical, suspicious newcomers
have found confidence
and comfort in the laughter and talk.
52.
... make haste
to reassure you.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
53.
... make helpful
suggestions.
BB p.145,
To Employers
54.
... make him
desperately unhappy and threaten his ...
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
55.
Make him
feel absolutely free to come ...
BB p.120,
To Wives
56.
... make hospital
arrangements, and entreat their wives ...
12&12 p.133,
Tradition Two
The founder and his friends channel spirituality to newcomers, hire halls, make hospital arrangements, and entreat their wives to brew gallons of coffee.
57.
... make inquiries.
12&12 p.180,
Tradition Eleven
58.
... make it
and gets drunk all over ...
BB p.22,
There Is A Solution
59.
Make it
clear that he is not ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
60.
... make it
emphatic that he does not ...
BB p.93,
Working With Others
If the man be agnostic or
atheist, make it emphatic that he does not have to agree with your conception
of God.
61.
Make it
plain he is under no ...
BB p.94,
Working With Others
Make it plain he is under no obligation to you, that you hope only that he will try to help other alcoholics when he
escapes his own difficulties.
62.
... make it
possible for me to earn ...
BB p.177,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
It was really a horrible
nightmare, this earning money, getting liquor, smuggling it home, getting drunk, morning jitters, taking large doses of sedatives to make it possible for me to earn more money, and so on ad nauseam.
63.
... make it
possible for the rest to ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
We'd gather up derelicts from skid rows, sort out those who could get well, and make it possible for the rest to earn their livelihood in a kind of quarantined confinement.
64.
... make it
stick, let alone mete out ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
Neither its General Service Conference, its Foundation Board,(*) nor the humblest group committee can issue a single directive to an A.A. member and make it stick, let alone mete out any punishment.
65.
... make large
sums of money to carry ...
12&12 p.155,
Tradition Six
66.
... make lifelong
friends.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
67.
... make little
difference.
BB p.50,
We Agnostics
68.
... make little
headway in this new adventure ...
12&12 p.77,
Step Eight
Every A.A. has found that he can make little headway in this new adventure of living until he first backtracks and really makes an accurate and unsparing
survey of the human wreckage he has left in his
wake.
69.
... make many
fast friends and a fellowship ...
BB p.15,
Bill's Story
We commenced to make many fast friends and a fellowship
has grown up among us of which it is a wonderful thing to feel a part.
70.
... make many
resolutions, but never a decision.
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
71.
... make me
a channel of thy peace ...
12&12 p.99,
Step Eleven
"Lord, make me a channel of thy peace -- that where there is hatred, I may bring love -- that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness --
that where there is discord, I may bring harmony -- that where
there is error, I may bring
truth -- that where there is doubt, I may bring faith -- that where there is despair, I may bring hope -- that where there are shadows, I may bring light -- that where there is sadness, I may bring joy.
72.
... make mistakes.
12&12 p.91,
Step Ten
The quick inventory is
aimed at our daily ups and downs, especially those where people or new events throw us off balance and tempt us to make mistakes.
73.
... make mistakes,
but if you are in ...
BB p.117,
To Wives
74.
... make money
out of their A.A. connections, ...
12&12 p.161,
Tradition Seven
We took this violent new tack because here and there members had tried to make money out of their A.A. connections, and we feared we'd be exploited.
75.
... make more
passions possible.
12&12 p.44,
Step Four
We have drunk to escape the
guilt of passions, and
then have drunk again to
make more passions possible.
76.
... make mortar
without sand?
BB p.75,
Into Action
77.
... make much
of his life until self-searching ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching becomes a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.
78.
... make much
sense when a real tosspot ...
12&12 p.78,
Step Eight
79.
... make my
beginning.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
80.
... make new
friends and is sure to ...
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
If he does not argue about religion, he will make new friends and is sure to find new avenues of usefulness
and pleasure.
81.
... make no
bones about our drinking; they ...
BB p.78,
Into Action
Telling them what we are trying to do, we make no bones about our drinking; they usually know it anyway, whether we think so or not.
82.
... make no
great difference, even if I ...
BB p.175,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
83.
... make no
request for ourselves only.
BB p.87,
Into Action
We ask especially for freedom from self-will, and are careful to make no request for ourselves
only.
84.
... make only
partial restitution, lest complete disclosures ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
There will be those to whom
we can make only partial restitution, lest complete disclosures
do them or others more harm than good.
85.
... make our
admissions to Him directly?
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
86.
... make our
apologies.
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
87.
... make our
peace, and so we listed ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We had to begin to make our
peace, and so we listed the
people we had harmed and
became willing to set things right.
88.
... make our
will conform with God's that ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
89.
... make out
whether he wanted to stop ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He proved to be a devil-may-care young fellow whose parents could not make out whether he wanted to stop drinking or not.
90.
... make progress
in the building of character.
12&12 p.65,
Step Six
91.
... make regular
use of prayer would no ...
12&12 p.97,
Step Eleven
Those of us who have come to
make regular use of prayer would no more do without it than we would refuse air, food, or sunshine.
92.
... make restitution
at all, and in some ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
Though in some cases we
cannot make restitution
at all, and in some cases action ought to be deferred, we should nevertheless make an accurate and really exhaustive survey of our
past life as it has affected other people.
93.
... make restitution
for harm done?
12&12 p.24,
Step One
94.
... make right.
BB p.80,
Into Action
95.
... make satisfactory
progress.
BB p.78,
Into Action
96.
... make some
definite and valuable suggestions.
BB p.86,
Into Action
97.
... make some
interesting discoveries.
BB p.149,
To Employers
98.
... make suggestions,
and very mild ones at ...
12&12 p.173,
Tradition Nine
But long ago, trustees and staff members alike found they could do no more than make suggestions, and very mild ones at that.
99.
... make terms.
BB p.145,
To Employers
100.
... make the
admission of hopelessness.
12&12 p.23,
Step One
Many less desperate alcoholics
tried A.A., but did not succeed because they could
not make the admission of
hopelessness.
101.
... make the
approach and to effect a ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
Our own conception,
however inadequate, was sufficient to make the approach and to effect a contact with Him.
102.
... make the
belated discovery that they are ...
12&12 p.134,
Tradition Two
103.
... make the
call," and extracted from my ...
BB p.179,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Wishing to be polite, though I felt very badly, I said, "Let's make the call," and extracted from my wife a promise that we would not stay
over fifteen minutes.
104.
... make the
change in our attitude which ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
The Seventh Step is where
we make the change in our attitude which permits us,
with humility as our guide, to move out from ourselves toward others and toward God.
105.
... make the
crosses of others heavier.
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
106.
... make the
decision to exert himself.
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
107.
... make the
effort.
BB p.26,
There Is A Solution
108.
... make the
family financially insecure.
12&12 p.51,
Step Four
109.
... make the
grade."
BB p.138,
To Employers
110.
... make the
supreme sacrifice rather than continue ...
BB xxx(xxviii),
The Doctor's Opinion
There are many situations which arise out of the phenomenon of craving which cause men to make the supreme sacrifice rather than continue to fight.
111.
... make their
point.
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
112.
... make them
so.
BB p.127,
The Family Afterward
We know there are difficult wives and families, but the man who is
getting over alcoholism must remember he did much to make them so.
113.
... make them
unhappy.
BB p.74,
Into Action
It may be one of our own family, but we cannot disclose anything to our
wives or our parents which
will hurt them and make them unhappy.
114.
... make these
arrangements our actor may sometimes ...
BB p.61,
How It Works
115.
... make these
sacrifices that gives people their ...
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
It is A.A.'s proved willingness to make these
sacrifices that gives
people their high confidence in our future.
116.
... make things
safer, the promoter organized three ...
12&12 p.148,
Tradition Four
117.
... make this
increasingly possible is the purpose ...
12&12 p.40,
Step Three
To make this increasingly possible
is the purpose of A.A.'s Twelve Steps, and Step Three opens the door.
118.
... make this
recommendation with some confidence.
BB p.114,
To Wives
119.
... make too
hard terms with those who ...
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
120.
... make Twelfth
Step work possible.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
121.
... make under
the influence of Step Five.
12&12 p.58,
Step Five
More realism and therefore more honesty about ourselves
are the great gains we make under the influence of Step Five.
122.
... make up
for lost time.
BB p.126,
The Family Afterward
123.
... make-up, just
as much as the feeling ...
BB p.55,
We Agnostics
We finally saw that faith in some kind of God was a part of our make-up, just
as much as the feeling we
have for a friend.
124.
... make up
more than one-fourth of the ...
BB xxii,
Foreword to Third Edition
Women now make up more
than one-fourth of the membership; among newer members, the proportion is nearly one-third.
125.
... make up
others' minds for them.
BB p.132,
The Family Afterward
126.
... make up
the deficiency.
BB p.131,
The Family Afterward
Instead of developing
new channels of activity for themselves, mother and children demand that he stay home and make up the deficiency.
127.
... make up
the self-centered person; and we ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
We wives found that, like everybody else, we were afflicted with
pride, self-pity, vanity and all the things which go to make up the self-centered person; and we were not above
selfishness or dishonesty.
128.
... make-up which
caused our failure.
BB p.64,
How It Works
129.
... make us
feel elated.
12&12 p.92,
Step Ten
For no people have ever loved personal triumphs more than we have loved them; we
drank of success as of a
wine which could never fail to make us feel elated.
130.
... make us,
let us say, the group's ...
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
131.
... make us
miserably ineffective.
12&12 p.90,
Step Ten
132.
... make us
more useful to others.
BB p.19,
There Is A Solution
Most of us sense that real tolerance of other people's shortcomings
and viewpoints and a respect for their opinions
are attitudes which make
us more useful to others.
133.
... make use
of his services with other ...
BB p.146,
To Employers
After your man has gone along without drinking for a few months, you may be able to make use of his services with other employees who are giving you the alcoholic
run-around -- provided, of course, they
are willing to have a third party in the picture.
134.
... make use
of our experience, we are ...
BB p.153,
A Vision For You
Should you wish them above
all else, and be willing to
make use of our experience, we are sure
they will come.
135.
... make use
of spiritual principles unless we ...
BB p.47,
We Agnostics
That was great news to us,
for we had assumed we could not make use of spiritual principles
unless we accepted many things on faith which seemed difficult to believe.
136.
Make use
of what they offer.
BB p.87,
Into Action
137.
... make was
that if the man followed ...
BB p.138,
To Employers
The only answer I could make
was that if the man followed the usual pattern, he would go on a bigger bust than ever.
138.
... make will
be cases where our disclosure ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
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