One of my students asked me this question about the following quote:
“Everything is ruled by chance. If only we knew who rules chance.” – Jerzy Stanislav Lec
Everything is not happening by chance though. It is incorrect to think so.
Nature has a definite program and runs by laws that are unchanging and absolute. It has paved a path for humanity to evolve through, and we are under its rule as clay in the hands of a potter. Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam) elaborates deeply on this concept in his article, “The Freedom.”
Therefore, there are absolutely no accidents in life. Everything that happens to us, life’s tapestry of encounters and situations, is not by chance. The paths we undergo lead us eventually to realize that nature completely governs us.
What does this realization of being under nature’s laws give us? It should form a sensation that we wish to cling to nature’s higher governing program and not let it go, like a baby who clings to its mother. If we give ourselves over to nature’s higher governing program in such a way, then we can be confident that we will be completely safe in our lives.
I have no doubt, from direct experience, that synchronistic events offer us a different vision of ourselves, a broader perspective on our existence, or a deeper understanding of others or the world. Sooner or later, everyone experiences an incredible coincidence capable of modifying at least in part the course of existence: these are phenomena (synchronistic) capable of changing the image we have of ourselves, our way of seeing the world, of opening up new perspectives. Something is significant to us in two ways: either it has a meaning because of our values, or it has an effect because it has strongly influenced our existence. What is generally considered pure chance instead has a role in the emotional and professional fields, in reality and in the world of dreams, in the daily and spiritual aspects of existence. By learning to consider our life as a story with internal coherence, where nothing happens without reason, we can learn to exploit coincidences to better understand ourselves and to give our existence greater fullness.