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


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... values.   12&12 p.29, Step Two
Of course, we were glad that good home and religious training had given us certain values.

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... values.   12&12 p.122, Step Twelve
If our circumstances happened to be good, we no longer dreaded a change for the worse, for we had learned that these troubles could be turned into great values.


3.
... values.   BB p.64, How It Works   Go to page 64 in the Big Book
If the owner of the business is to be successful, he cannot fool himself about values.


4.
... values.   BB p.129, The Family Afterward   Go to page 129 in the Big Book
If the family cooperates, dad will soon see that he is suffering from a distortion of values.

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... values had to come first, and that ...   12&12 p.71, Step Seven
We had lacked the perspective to see that character-building and spiritual values had to come first, and that material satisfactions were not the purpose of living.

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... values, this blindness to the true purpose ...   12&12 p.72, Step Seven
This lack of anchorage to any permanent values, this blindness to the true purpose of our lives, produced another bad result.

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... values which have come straight out of ...   12&12 p.74, Step Seven
Our eyes begin to open to the immense values which have come straight out of painful ego-puncturing.


Passages from the Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous and the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions are reprinted with permission of A.A. World Services, Inc.  The A.A. Preamble, copyright © The A.A. Grapevine, Inc., is reprinted with permission.  Permission to reprint does not in any way imply affiliation with or endorsement by either Alcoholics Anonymous or The A.A. Grapevine, Inc.

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