Extract from "SQ -
Spiritual Intelligence," Zohar and Marshall
The levels of spiritual intelligence
reflect the transcendence of self awareness and the potential integration
between one's rational and emotional aptitudes. In their book "SQ -
Spiritual Intelligence," Zohar and Marshall attached the following
qualities to an individual who is spiritually intelligent. The individual...
- addresses and solves problems of meaning and value
- has the ability to assess their course of action or their life-path
- realizes that he is a spiritual 'creature' and asks questions like: "Why was I born? What is the meaning of life? Why should I go on when I'm tired, depressed or feel beaten?"
- has virtue, the ability to ask questions about good and evil
- has the ability to "dream, to aspire, to raise ourselves out of the mud"
- realizes the human potential to facilitate between reason and emotion, mind and body
- recognizes the ability to heal oneself and to make oneself whole
- recognizes existing values with the ability to creatively discover new values, with the realization that one is not culture dependent
- is creative and uses this quality to be flexible and spontaneous.
- is willing to try and resolve life's problems and to deal with them
- will be able to transcend to intrapersonal and inter-personal relationships
- has transpersonal visions of goodness, beauty, perfection, generosity, sacrifice, etc.
- is a servant leader and an person who inspires others
- is able to identify the spiritually dumb culture of society with its pressures, urges, needs, and satiations
- can see the reality behind surface desires
- can reflect deeply on what he thinks with a deeper and wider framework of his deepest motivations and life's purposes
- seeks self-awareness
- can stand against the crowd, or is able to hold an unpopular opinion about something they deeply believe in
- knows who he is and what he believes in
- lives by the golden rule
- possesses intense personal integrity
- has the ability to see life and others as fresh as through the eyes of an child
- has the capacity to be flexible (actively and spontaneously adaptive)
- has the capacity to face and transcend pain
- has the quality of being inspired by vision and values
- is reluctant to cause unnecessary harm
- has a tendency to see the connections between diverse things (being 'holistic')
- has a marked tendency to ask "Why?"
