You can't make this stuff up!

Ever since I came across the Latin phrase RES IPSA LOQVITVR a few weeks ago which means "the thing that speaks for itself," I've been trying to live my life by it.

To me, the phrase means truth, honesty, transparency, and presenting myself just the way I am with no holds barred. This has led to many rejections, as most people cannot handle all of me, nor can they handle the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth... But I march on, knowing that I fully trust who drives my heart.

Then a couple days ago (it seems forever ago), I met someone on another blog that has a phrase of his own. His phrase that he tries to live by is SAPERE AUDE, which means "dare to think," or "think for yourself." The awesomeness of this connection was more than I can describe.

I closed my eyes and absorbed the new phrase. To me, it stands for freedom and having the courage to think freely. It means staying true to what speaks to my heart directly from the source of Truth itself.

As I am a huge fan of the number three, which means "fullness" to me, I began to wonder if there is a third phrase out there somewhere. (I try to find meaning in everything, every single speck of dust, and certain numbers are important to me. The number seven means "perfection." God created the world in seven days, and He rested on the seventh day when He saw it was perfect. As I mentioned before, the number three means "fullness." It means Trinity. It means the fullness of God. The number ten, which is the sum of seven and three, means "completion." Perfection + Fullness = Completion. Completion x Fullness = 1,000 years [perhaps?] I'm still trying to figure out what the number 12 could mean.)

Then this morning, as I was reading a new book called "Seeds for the Soul," written by an author who has become a good friend after many correspondence with him, I found the third phrase written in the introduction:

NON SEQUITUR. I think it is more known than the other phrases. I've heard of it before, but I didn't know what it meant. This is what I found:

non se·qui·tur

Pronunciation:
\ˈnän-ˈse-kwə-tər also -ˌtu̇r\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
Latin, it does not follow
Date:
1540

1: an inference that does not follow from the premises;specifically : a fallacy resulting from a simple conversion of a universal affirmative proposition or from the transposition of a condition and its consequent 2: a statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said.

AND THEN I FOUND THIS LESS KNOWN MEANING:

Non sequiturs often appear to be disconnected or random comments, or random changes in subject, especially socially inappropriate ones. When non sequiturs are used frequently for comic effect this can be called "absurd humor". The non sequitur can be understood as the converse of cliché. Traditional comedy and drama can depend on the ritualization and predictability of human emotional experiences, where the theatre of the absurd uses disjunction and unpredictability.

Then I KNEW this is my third phrase! I fits perfectly!

I have been holding dear to my heart a few quotes that I have found in the last two years:

I have contradicted myself, in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
~ Marcel Duchamp

We are obliged to create our own language because there are dimensions to ourselves absent from clichés, which require us to flout etiquette in order to convey with greater accuracy the distinctive timbre of our thought.
~ Alaine de Botton

We are in the habit of giving to what we feel a form of expression which differs so much from, and which we nevertheless after a little time take to be, reality itself.
~ Marcel Proust

Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.
~ Marcel Proust

How amazing is that? The phrase fits right in with these quotes. To me, the phrase means non-conformity. It means the opposite of "cliche."

PERFECT!!!!

So is this a coincidence? I think not!