When you go through a coincidence, do you wonder if was by accident or by design? Albert Einstein says, “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”
If we look at coincidences as occurring by design, then the question would be: “How do we attract coincidences that help us reach our goals?”
Synchronicity is a phenomenon of experiencing two or more events as meaningfully related, though they are unlikely to be causally related. They are perceived as a “meaningful coincidence”, although the events need not be exactly simultaneous in time.
Carl Jung described synchronicity as “the underlying cosmic intelligence that synchronizes people, places, and events into a meaningful order”. These meaningful ‘coincidences’ appear to be more than just mere chance, and connect together seemingly unrelated moments in time, in an organized manner.
Synchronicity can be part of your journey leading to your destiny or be connecting you to the field of consciousness that Carl Jung calls, underlying connectedness.
Serendipity, on the other hand, is an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
The 12th-century Sufi poet Rumi sums it up: “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”