There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
On the weekend, I happened upon a story about the actor Anthony Hopkins that seemed too good to be true. Before getting too interested, I fact-checked - far too many good-news stories are simply click-bait. In my search, that same story about Anthony Hopkins appeared in Paul Broks "long read" from The Guardian in April 2023. Broks' article has that and several other examples of coincidences that also seem too good to be true.
Be they premonitions, or serendipitous occurrences, coincidences happen to everyone. Some people pay more attention to them than others. When coincidences happen, how we react says a lot about our attitude to life.
My own attitude toward life and, in particular, coincidences borders on apophenia, "erroneous perception of patterns where none exist", While, I suppose, such a belief can be a problem for some I have lived, quite successfully, with this for a very long time. In fact, my post A Deeper Self from 2016 includes what I wrote in 1988 on this very subject.
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