Unlearning Old Values

"The newcomer to A.A. is asked, not so much to learn new values, as to unlearn those he comes in with; not so much to adopt new goals, as to abandon old ones. To my mind, one of the most significant sentences in the entire book ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS is this:

'Some of us tried to hold on to our old ideas and the result was nil until we let go absolutely.'"

c. 1970, A Member's Eye View of Alcoholics Anonymous
(A.A. Pamphlet P-41), page 13