From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
GUILT occurs
6 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... guilt and
remorse might cause us to ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
Too much
guilt and
remorse
might
cause us to
dramatize and
exaggerate our
shortcomings.
2.
... guilt and
self-loathing.
12&12 p.45,
Step Four
If
temperamentally we are on the
depressive side, we are
apt to be
swamped with
guilt and
self-
loathing.
3.
... guilt, brings
us to a resting place ...
12&12 p.62,
Step Five
This
feeling of being at one with
God and
man, this
emerging from
isolation
through the
open and
honest
sharing of our
terrible
burden of
guilt, brings us
to a
resting place where we may
prepare ourselves for the
following Steps toward a
full and
meaningful sobriety.
4.
... guilt of
passions, and then have drunk ...
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.
5.
... guilt that
nothing could extinguish?
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
Did I
burn with a
guilt that
nothing could
extinguish?
6.
... guilt when
he thinks of yesterday.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
Our
friend is still
victimized by
remorse
and
guilt when he
thinks of
yesterday.
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