The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self centered world. "Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive." The Washington Post Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light.