In “Soul Moments”, Phil Cousineau presents a terrific collection of synchronicity stories which fed my longing for heartwarming stories of meaningful coincidences in May 2002, during a brief three-month interlude in my professional career. Here are the lessons I learned:
On “Synchronicity”:
“…synchronicity is less a phenomenon to be proved than a fascination to be lived.”
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“For me, synchronicity is an inexplicable but profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a guiding glimpse of one’s destiny.”
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“For all its usual brevity, an experience of synchronicity is marked by elegance, symmetry, vividness, suddenness, poetry, or a truth that speaks to the heart, often finally a sense of the unforgettable…”
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“…there are no accidents in the circle of synchronicity.”
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“…synchronicities arose during points of crisis in people’s lives, and moreover, contained insights, seeds of the future, and signs of destiny, if only people learned how to read them.”
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“…an experience of synchronicity is a soul moment, an electrifying experience, as sudden as a visitation by a god, a palpable inrush of grace and power, one of the defining moments in life, a sudden conviction that we might move beyond fate and realize a hint of our destiny.”
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“There is a palpable link between synchronicity and destiny.”
On “Moments”:
“I know I couldn’t make it through the rest of the day if every moment had momentous significance.”
On “Meaning of Life”:
“…the meaning of life is not only in the quest for one’s own well-being but lies in the service of something greater.”
On “Life’s Stories”:
“…there are only six kinds of stories that are repeated over and over…”
On “True Vocation”:
“…if one does the work proper to one’s true vocation, ‘the grace of great things’ will come naturally.”
- Phil Cousineau
