There were several definitions of Spiritual Intelligence given in the article, some of which struck me as too vague to be of any meaning to me. Here's a collection of some of the more interesting and meaningful ones though:
[Spiritual Intelligence is]the intelligence with which we can place our actions and our lives in a wider, richer, meaning-giving context; the intelligence with which we can assess that one course of action or one life-path is more meaningful than another... [It]allows human beings to be creative, to change the rules and to alter situations. It allows us to play with the boundaries; it gives us our moral sense; it allows us to wrestle with questions of good and evil and to envision unrealized possibilities.
The article goes on to list a set of practical aspects of spiritual intelligence:
- Acceptance of adversity rather than raging against it. Not resorting to blame, guilt, rationalising, anger, despair, denial and other typical defense mechanisms.
- Using materials preciously and avoiding waste. Recycling, reusing things wherever possible, reducing waste and repairing things instead of replacing them.
- Being grateful for everything including adversity.
- Having the capacity to see one's ego (Witness Consciousness) and choose whether to go with the ego's habitual tendency or do something different.
- Apologising for one's mistakes and making amends wherever possible.
- Seeing the inherent beauty of everything and everyone.
- Having a positive attitude.
- Treating everyone and everything with compassion and gratitude including tools and machines.
- Leaving every place you go better than you found it.
- Respect for the environment and bio-diversity as having inherent as well as practical value
It sounds a lot like the list of characteristics of a well rounded mature personality.
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