Tom Robbins Quotes About Coincidence

Quotes about: Coincidence

• Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.'

  Tom Robbins

  Rushing, Goal, Wish

  "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas". Book by Tom Robbins, 1994.

• Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.

  Tom Robbins

  Fate, Adequate, Matter

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.22, Bantam

• What we, thanks to Jung, call "synchronicity" (coincidence on steroids), Buddhists have long known as "the interpenetration of realities." Whether it's a natural law of sorts or simply evidence of mathematical inevitability (an infinite number of monkeys locked up with an infinite number of typewriters eventually producing 'Hamlet,' not to mention 'Tarzan of the Apes'), it seems to be as real as it is eerie.

  Tom Robbins

  Buddhist, Real, Typewriters

  "The Syntax of Sorcery". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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