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

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MAKING   occurs   49 times 19 in BB  •  30 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
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1.
  ... making.  BB How It Works, p.62
So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making.


2.
  ... making.  BB Working With Others, p.103
After all, our problems were of our own making.


3.
  ... making.  12&12 Step Twelve, p.116
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.


4.
  ... making a better practical use of it.  BB The Family Afterward, p.130
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 Tradition Seven, pp.162-163
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 Step Twelve, p.123
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 Step Eight, p.79
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 More About Alcoholism, p.31
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 Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.173
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 Contents (Step Nine), p.7
Good timing is important in making amends.


11.
  ... making amends.  12&12 Step Nine, p.86
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.
  ... making amends that we don't care what ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.86
Are we going to be so rigidly righteous about making amends that we don't care what happens to the family and home?


13.
  ... making amends, we may enjoy such a ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.85
After taking this preliminary trial at making amends, we may enjoy such a sense of relief that we conclude our task is finished.


14.
  ... making an inventory, will need to determine ...  12&12 Step Four, p.48
Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character defects are.


15.
  ... making as much money as ever.  12&12 Tradition Two, pp.136-137
I thought of a few of my alcoholic friends, who were making as much money as ever.


16.
  ... making certain kinds of direct amends from ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
Most of us begin making certain kinds of direct amends from the day we join Alcoholics Anonymous.


17.
  ... making demands upon God to give it ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.104
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.


18.
  ... making demands upon ourselves or upon others ...  12&12 Step Four, p.49
Pride lures us into making demands upon ourselves or upon others which cannot be met without perverting or misusing our God-given instincts.


19.
  ... making direct amends to those concerned, except ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.108
We followed this up in Step Nine by making direct amends to those concerned, except when it would injure them or other people.


20.
  ... making disobedience a virtue!"  12&12 Tradition Nine, p.174
At this juncture, we can hear a churchman exclaim, "They are making disobedience a virtue!"


21.
  ... making financial independence part of its tradition, ...  12&12 Tradition Seven, p.165
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.


22.
  ... making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders in this ...  12&12 Step Five, p.60
Surely, then, a novice ought not lay himself open to the chance of making foolish, perhaps tragic, blunders in this fashion.


23.
  ... making friendly little jokes about an alcoholic's ...  BB To Employers, p.145
One instance comes to mind in which a malicious individual was always making friendly little jokes about an alcoholic's drinking exploits.


24.
  ... making good to the wife or parents ...  BB Into Action, p.82
But he is yet a long way from making good to the wife or parents whom for years he has so shockingly treated.


25.
  ... making heavy going of life.  BB We Agnostics, pp.50-51
Once confused and baffled by the seeming futility of existence, they show the underlying reasons why they were making heavy going of life.


26.
  ... making honesty, tolerance, and true love of ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.72
We never thought of making honesty, tolerance, and true love of man and God the daily basis of living.


27.
  ... making it possible.  12&12 Tradition Eight, pp.168-169
She was not professionalizing the Twelfth Step; she was just making it possible.


28.
  ... making it possible for him to be ...  BB Working With Others, p.96
You will be making it possible for him to be insincere.


29.
  ... making me resolve that when I was ...  BB Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.172
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.


30.
  ... making money.  12&12 Tradition Two, p.136
All around you these drunks are getting well and making money.


31.
  ... "making money out of A.A."  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.167
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."


32.
  ... "making money out of A.A."  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.168
They weren't asked to speak at A.A. meetings because they were "making money out of A.A."


33.
  ... making money out of A.A.!"  12&12 Tradition Eight, p.170
More often than not, these onslaughts were spearheaded by the cry "Professionalism! That guy is making money out of A.A.!"


34.
  ... making, of course, any amends still neglected.  12&12 Step Ten, p.94
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.


35.
  ... making of direct amends divides those we ...  12&12 Step Nine, p.83
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.


36.
  ... making our review we ask God's forgiveness ...  BB Into Action, p.86
After making our review we ask God's forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken.


37.
  ... making ready to receive this gift lies ...  12&12 Step Twelve, p.107
A.A.'s manner of making ready to receive this gift lies in the practice of the Twelve Steps in our program.


38.
  ... making restitution to others is paramount, it ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
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.


39.
  ... making several trips to the hospital meantime.  BB More About Alcoholism, p.32
He tried to regulate his drinking for a while, making several trips to the hospital meantime.


40.
  ... making specific requests, it will be well ...  12&12 Step Eleven, p.102
Even so, when making specific requests, it will be well to add to each one of them this qualification: "...if it be Thy will."


41.
  ... making speeches, frequenting men's gathering places of ...  BB A Vision For You, p.158
He entered a political campaign, making speeches, frequenting men's gathering places of all sorts, often staying up all night.


42.
  ... making sure we were ready; that we ...  BB How It Works, p.63
We thought well before taking this step making sure we were ready; that we could at last abandon ourselves utterly to Him.


43.
  ... making the approach has had the same ...  BB There Is A Solution, p.18
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.


44.
  ... making their resolutions; most of them within ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.34
Some will be drunk the day after making their resolutions; most of them within a few weeks.


45.
  ... making too hard work of a simple ...  BB More About Alcoholism, p.40
I had no trouble refusing drinks, and began to wonder if I had not been making too hard work of a simple matter.


46.
  ... making unreasonable demands upon ourselves, upon others, ...  12&12 Step Seven, p.76
We now clearly see that we have been making unreasonable demands upon ourselves, upon others, and upon God.


47.
  ... making unreasonable demands upon those we love.  12&12 Step Ten, p.93
We can try to stop making unreasonable demands upon those we love.


48.
  ... making us feel heroic.  BB Bill's Story, p.1
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.


49.
  ... making your second visit to a man.  BB Working With Others, p.96
Suppose now you are making your second visit to a man.


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