Time Passing Through the Embrace of Eternity
Musings from Living Eternity in Time: On Synchronicity
I find that synchronicity is an event where the connections that are everywhere anyway are unveiled along with, by grace or invention, their messages and meanings. It is a kind of clairvoyance in seeing the inherent connections, similarities and harmonies in such a way that time meets the eternal. The interconnectedness and perfection of everything reflects itself infinitely and points us to this infinitely no matter which way we look, though we often resist what is before us preferring to see some other idea that we think should be there and not recognizing what is before us beyond those preconceptions. This ever-present Self-reflection/revealment can be found in what might seem to be dark or unfortunate circumstances too, as beautifully expressed here by Rumi:
What hurts you, blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
Your boundaries are your quest ...
I can explain this ...
but .. it would break ...
the glass cover
on your heart,
and there's no fixing that ...
- Rumi
We can also say that an event of synchronicity is distinct from the appearance of "co-incidence" or "two incidents" because it is the graceful revealment of what is nottwo.
3/11/06
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