From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... making.
12&12 p.116,
Step Twelve
These were the new attitudes that finally brought many of us an inner strength and peace that could not be deeply
shaken by the shortcomings of others
or by any calamity not of
our own making.
2.
... making.
BB p.62,
How It Works
3.
... making.
BB p.103,
Working With Others
4.
... making a
better practical use of it.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
Nothing will help the man who is off on a spiritual tangent so much as the wife who adopts a sane spiritual program, making a better practical use of it.
5.
... making a
five-dollar investment to fix a ...
12&12 p.163,
Tradition Seven
I felt especially virtuous as I thought of
all the ex-drunks who wouldn't
even send the Foundation a dollar apiece, and here I was gladly making a five-dollar investment to fix a hangover.
6.
... making a
life business of winning fame, ...
12&12 p.123,
Step Twelve
We have seen that we were prodded by unreasonable fears or anxieties into making a life business of winning fame, money, and what we thought
was leadership.
7.
... making a
list of all the people ...
12&12 p.79,
Step Eight
These were some of the ways in which fear conspired with pride to hinder our making a list of all the people we had harmed.
8.
... making a
normal drinker out of an ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
Physicians who are familiar with alcoholism agree there is
no such thing as making a normal drinker out of an alcoholic.
9.
... making a
scene should I be called ...
BB p.173,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
Many mornings I have gone to classes, and even though fully prepared, would turn and walk back to the fraternity house because of my jitters, not daring to enter the classroom for fear of making a scene should I be called on
for recitation.
10.
... making amends.
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.
11.
... making amends
that we don't care what ...
12&12 p.86,
Step Nine
Are we going to be so rigidly righteous about
making amends that we don't
care what happens to the family and home?
12.
... making amends,
we may enjoy such a ...
12&12 p.85,
Step Nine
After taking this preliminary trial at
making amends, we may enjoy such a sense of relief that we conclude our task is finished.
13.
... making an
inventory, will need to determine ...
12&12 p.48,
Step Four
Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character
defects are.
14.
... making as
much money as ever.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
15.
... making certain
kinds of direct amends from ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
16.
... making demands
upon God to give it ...
12&12 p.104,
Step Eleven
We discover that we do receive guidance for our
lives to just about the extent that we stop making demands upon God to give it to us on order and on
our terms.
17.
... making demands
upon ourselves or upon others ...
12&12 p.49,
Step Four
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing
our God-given instincts.
18.
... making direct
amends to those concerned, except ...
12&12 p.108,
Step Twelve
We followed this up in Step Nine by making direct amends to those concerned, except when it
would injure them or other
people.
19.
... making disobedience
a virtue!"
12&12 p.174,
Tradition Nine
20.
... making financial
independence part of its tradition, ...
12&12 p.165,
Tradition Seven
They pointed out that the irresponsible had become responsible, and
that by making financial
independence part of
its tradition, Alcoholics Anonymous
had revived an ideal that
its era had almost forgotten.
21.
... making foolish,
perhaps tragic, blunders in this ...
12&12 p.60,
Step Five
Surely, then, a novice ought not lay himself open to the chance of making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders in this fashion.
22.
... making friendly
little jokes about an alcoholic's ...
BB p.145,
To Employers
One instance comes to mind in which a malicious individual
was always making friendly little jokes about an alcoholic's
drinking exploits.
23.
... making good
to the wife or parents ...
BB p.82,
Into Action
But he is yet a long way from making good to the wife or parents whom for years he has
so shockingly treated.
24.
... making heavy
going of life.
BB p.51,
We Agnostics
Once confused and baffled by the seeming futility of existence,
they show the underlying
reasons why they were making heavy going of life.
25.
... making honesty,
tolerance, and true love of ...
12&12 p.72,
Step Seven
We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.
26.
... making it
possible.
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
27.
... making it
possible for him to be ...
BB p.96,
Working With Others
28.
... making me
resolve that when I was ...
BB p.172,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This had the effect of making me resolve that when I was
free from parental domination, I would never
again darken the doors of a church.
29.
... making money.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
30.
... "making money
out of A.A."
12&12 p.167,
Tradition Eight
Caretakers who swept floors, cooks who fried hamburgers, secretaries in offices,
authors writing books -- all these we have seen
hotly assailed because they were, as their critics angrily remarked, "making money out of A.A."
31.
... "making money
out of A.A."
12&12 p.168,
Tradition Eight
32.
... making money
out of A.A.!"
12&12 p.170,
Tradition Eight
33.
... making, of
course, any amends still neglected.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
Here we need only recognize that we did act or
think badly, try to visualize how we might
have done better, and resolve with God's help to carry these lessons over into tomorrow, making, of course, any amends still neglected.
34.
... making of
direct amends divides those we ...
12&12 p.83,
Step Nine
After we have made the list of people we have harmed, have reflected carefully upon each instance, and have tried to possess ourselves of the right attitude in which to proceed, we will see that the making of direct amends divides those we should approach into several classes.
35.
... making our
review we ask God's forgiveness ...
BB p.86,
Into Action
After making our review we ask God's forgiveness and inquire what corrective
measures should be taken.
36.
... making ready
to receive this gift lies ...
12&12 p.107,
Step Twelve
A.A.'s manner of making ready to receive this gift lies in the practice of the
Twelve Steps in our program.
37.
... making restitution
to others is paramount, it ...
12&12 p.80,
Step Eight
While the purpose of making restitution to others is paramount, it is
equally necessary that
we extricate from an examination of our personal relations every bit of information about ourselves and our fundamental difficulties that we can.
38.
... making several
trips to the hospital meantime.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
39.
... making specific
requests, it will be well ...
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
Even so, when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification: "...if it be Thy will."
40.
... making speeches,
frequenting men's gathering places of ...
BB p.158,
A Vision For You
He entered a political
campaign, making speeches, frequenting
men's gathering places of all sorts, often staying up all night.
41.
... making sure
we were ready; that we ...
BB p.63,
How It Works
We thought well before taking this step making sure we were ready; that we
could at last abandon ourselves utterly to Him.
42.
... making the
approach has had the same ...
BB p.18,
There Is A Solution
That the man who is making the
approach has had the same
difficulty, that he obviously knows what he is
talking about, that his whole deportment shouts at the new prospect that he is a man with
a real answer, that he has
no attitude of Holier Than Thou, nothing whatever except the sincere desire to be helpful; that
there are no fees to pay, no axes
to grind, no people to please, no lectures to be endured -- these are the conditions we have found
most effective.
43.
... making their
resolutions; most of them within ...
BB p.34,
More About Alcoholism
44.
... making too
hard work of a simple ...
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I had no trouble refusing drinks, and began to wonder if I had not
been making too hard work of a simple matter.
45.
... making unreasonable
demands upon ourselves, upon others, ...
12&12 p.76,
Step Seven
We now clearly see that we have been making unreasonable demands
upon ourselves, upon others, and upon God.
46.
... making unreasonable
demands upon those we love.
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
47.
... making us
feel heroic.
BB p.1,
Bill's Story
War fever ran high in the New England town to which we new, young officers from Plattsburg were assigned, and we were flattered when the first citizens took us to their homes, making us feel heroic.
48.
... making your
second visit to a man.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
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