Marie-Louise Von Franz

Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.

Synchronicity...means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

If a man devotes himself to the instructions of his own unconscious, it can bestow this gift [of renewal], so that suddenly life, which has been stale and dull, turns into a rich unending inner adventure, full of creative possibilities

If we can stay with the tension of_x000D_ opposites long enough —sustain it,_x000D_ be true to it—we can sometimes_x000D_ become vessels within which the_x000D_ divine opposites come together and_x000D_ give birth to a new reality.

As soon as we notice that certain types of events 'like' to cluster together at certain times, we begin to understand the Chinese, whose theories of medicine, philosophy, and even building are based on a 'science' of meaningful coincidences.