From the books ...
Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
YESTERDAY occurs
5 times
(
Definition from Merriam-Webster Online)
1.
... yesterday.
12&12 p.39,
Step Three
Our
friend is still
victimized by
remorse
and
guilt when he
thinks of
yesterday.
2.
... yesterday.
12&12 p.102,
Step Eleven
3.
... yesterday's and sometimes today's excesses of negative ...
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
That is the
emotional hangover, the
direct result of
yesterday's and
sometimes
today's
excesses of
negative emotion --
anger,
fear,
jealousy, and the like.
4.
... yesterday gets more urgent than ever.
12&12 p.55,
Step Five
If we have
swept the
searchlight of
Step Four back and
forth over our
careers, and it has
revealed in
stark relief those
experiences
we'd rather not
remember, if we have
come to
know how
wrong thinking and
action have
hurt us and others,
then the
need to
quit living by ourselves with those
tormenting ghosts of
yesterday gets more
urgent
than ever.
5.
... yesterday, he cannot live well today.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
When a
drunk has a
terrific hangover because
he
drank heavily yesterday, he cannot
live well
today.
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