The Power of the Heart: Finding Your True Purpose in Life (18 page)

A few months after I had started working on the film,
The Power of the Heart
, I began to have serious doubts about what I was doing. I wasn’t at all sure that I could pull off such an ambitious project. For a while, I even thought about quitting altogether and going back to working as a lawyer—after all, that’s what I had been trained to do.

Unable to stand these doubts anymore, one day I said to myself,
If I am really supposed to be doing this, if this is what life wants from me, then I need a signal, a confirmation—and I need it
today.
I even found myself saying this out loud to the universe: “If I am supposed to do this, give me a sign!”

Moments later, the doorbell rang. The mailman greeted me and handed me a pile of magazines. The headline on the magazine on top read, in big letters,
Follow Your Heart.
(
Volg je Hart
in Dutch).

At that point I knew that this was the sign I needed. I was flooded by a deep sense of gratitude—and I had no more doubts!

There is a greater power behind absolutely everything you do. Things happen for a reason, and when it seems as if the world is working with you, not against you, that is synchronicity. Haven’t you had the feeling that something was not “just” a coincidence? Maybe you heard song lyrics on the radio that resonated throughout your day. Or you thought of a friend you hadn’t seen in a long time and at that very moment she called you with great news.

 GARY ZUKAV

Synchronicity is this interesting, funny-sounding word that was created by Carl Jung. And what he meant by it was those times in your life when something appears to be a coincidence but you know that there is more to it than that. There is more than just a random coincidence involved. There is meaning, there is purpose, there is power behind it.

Synchronicities seem like small miracles, anonymous gifts from the universe. They come as a pleasant surprise, a marvelous connection that can transform your life from one moment to the next, opening an exciting
path with the possibility of growth or insight. These events are highly unlikely—and yet they happen. You’re in desperate need of advice or help from someone whom you thought you couldn’t contact, but who suddenly emails you or appears on your doorstep. You meet the love of your life by going somewhere spontaneously you had not planned to go. When improbabilities appear to multiply, one after another, and the usual laws of cause and effect are suspended, that is synchronicity.

 PAULO COELHO

I believe this universe is whole. And so, synchronicity for me is this connection that you have, that you meet people, or that you read something that you need to read at that moment, or that you do something that is there waiting for you.

 ECKHART TOLLE

For example, just running into the exact person whom you need to help you in what you are doing, to get a phone call just at the right moment. Something that coincides with what you are doing and becomes a helpful factor. And you cannot explain causally how that happened.

Think about the coincidences that have happened to you and ask yourself how they happened. Set for yourself the intention to see into the synchronicities that surround you. Do you now see other connections that you’d missed before or didn’t want to see then?

 PAULO COELHO

People sometimes are a little bit scared. They are scared of accepting that this opportunity is there waiting for him or her. They say, “Okay, no, no, this makes no sense,” or they say, “It is dangerous, because this opportunity, this synchronicity that happened now, may change my life forever.” And then you don’t obey your heart, you don’t obey synchronicity, you don’t obey what there is put in front of you, with a label: “Follow me, listen to me, I am here.” You don’t do that and then you lose all the possibilities that synchronicity is giving to you.

Every time you have an improbable experience, acknowledge it as one with a deeper meaning. Remain on the alert and look for clues that might tell you more about that deeper meaning. Whenever you make out a message behind a synchronistic event, you confirm that you are connected to a higher consciousness and that you are far less likely to be hampered by feelings of fear and doubt when you align with your soul.

 MICHAEL BECKWITH

As we begin to look for synchronicity, as we begin to notice that there is an interconnection of life that is everywhere, something happens. It is as if a filter drops away. And we notice that synchronicity is all around us, that this isn’t an accidental universe.

The interesting thing about synchronicity is that, the more you focus on it, the more you attract it, the more often you’ll experience it. And,
as you repeatedly try to see the meanings and connections at the bottom of each experience, you boost your intuitive skills.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.

—G. K. CHESTERTON

Even if you don’t see right away the meaning of the connections behind a synchronicity, keep asking yourself about it. The answer may present itself later that same day or week or month. And the answer may be in the form of another synchronicity—perhaps a sudden insight or unexpected encounter.

 ISABEL ALLENDE

I believe that everything is connected, that there is a certain spiderweb out there. And in this spiderweb, everything in the universe is connected. The past, the future, the universe, the planets, every form of life is connected.

Your logical mind can only show you causal connections, but at the deeper level of the soul, a large web of connections is at work. As you learn to see with your heart, beyond your personality, through your intuition, those connections still start coming into view.

 GARY ZUKAV

As you become multisensory, these kinds of experiences become more common. And as you create Authentic Power in your life, you begin to see that there is nothing random in your experience. There is nothing accidental in your world.

 DEEPAK CHOPRA