According to the American Heritage Dictionary, coincidence is:
- The state or fact of occupying the same relative position or area in space.
- A sequence of events that although accidental seems to have been planned or arranged.
What led me to this topic was something that happened to both a good friend of mine and I. We both experienced an identical incident, a day apart. We both got into trouble because of an email (well, different emails of course) and we both have to do firefighting. The irony was not lost on both of us with regards to the similarities, lol. Well, we still trying to resolve each of our separate yet similar incident. Hope it will end well for us.
Here are some quotes on "coincidence":
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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, Collected Works vol. 8
If there were no such thing as coincidence, there would be no such word. - Heron Carvic
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
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