From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
1.
... guilt and
remorse might cause us to ...
12&12 p.59,
Step Five
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
6.
... guilt when
he thinks of yesterday.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
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