These daily reflections, prayers and tags of memory-sticking phrases are intended to offer inspiration, comfort and, above all, hope to those recovering from alcoholism, or from other forms of chemical dependency or compulsive behavior.

This book is based on the solid spiritual foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), upon the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions. It draws also upon the great body of accumulated human wisdom—from civilization’s Golden Age to our not-always-so-golden modern era, from Socrates to Bill W., co-founder of AA. Here, in brief day-by-day messages are some of these available riches, the words of poets, scholars, philosophers, psychologists which are the verbal sums of centuries of human experience. May these sums and sayings serve as guidelines—a day at a time.