Quotes on Coincidence from Quotes for the Journey!

Quotes for
the Journey:

Coincidence

Coincidences are
spiritual puns.
G. K. Chesterton



Coincidences are a true paradox. . . on the one hand they seem to be the source of our greatest irrationalities--seeing causal connections when science tells us they aren't there. On the other hand, some of our greatest feats of scientific discovery depend on coincidences.       -Josh Tenenbaum



The more frequently one uses the word "coincidence" to explain bizarre happenings, the more obvious it becomes that one is not seeking, but evading the real explanation.       -Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson



When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.       -Deepak Chopra



Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.       -Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross



All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.       -Tom Stoppard



Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.       -Isaac Asimov

The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure.       -Carl Jung



Coincidence, if traced far enough back, becomes inevitable.       -Hineu



Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.       -Doris Lessing



The belief in coincidence is the prevalent superstition of the Age of Science.       -Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson



Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.       -Emma Bull







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