God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
Interpretation
Life transcends our mortal limits through inherent meanings and possibilities.
Harry Emerson Fosdick's quote suggests that our lives are imbued with deeper meanings and boundless possibilities that extend beyond our mortal existence. It implies that there is a divine intention in our lives, encouraging us to explore our potential and the significance of our experiences, which can lead to greater fulfillment and understanding of our purpose.
In practice
In a motivational speech about finding purpose in life.
Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality.
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. I renounce war, and never again, directly or indirectly, will I sanction or support another.
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
Nothing in this world is more inspiring than a soul up against crippling circumstances who carries it off with courage and faith and undefeated character-nothing! See Light From Many Lamps, edited by L. E. Watson, article by H. E. Fosdick, pp. 93-94 re: a serious cripple who succeeded.
I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.
So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions.
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
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