When you go through a coincidence, do you wonder if it was by accident or by design? Albert Einstein says, “Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.”
If we look at the coincidences as happening by design then the question would be “How do we attract these coincidences that help us to reach our goals?”
Synchronicity is the 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 connecting you to the field of consciousness or what Carl Jung calls underlying connectedness.
Serendipity, on the other hand, is an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
12th-century Sufi poet Rumi sums it up: “Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”