The Road to Character by David Brooksby Parker on TwosAchieve a state of Grace not through surrender but through her own moral choices, by living a virtuous and rigorous lifePeople who see themselves as the center of their solar system, often get enraptured by their own terrible but also delicious suffering. People who see themselves as a piece of a larger universe and a longer story rarely doWhen people behave on the basis of uncompromising individual desire, they might set off a selfish contagion in those around themLove is a surrender. You expose your deepest vulnerabilities and give up your illusions of self-mastery