Definitions of spiritual intelligence rely on the concept of spirituality as being distinct from religiosity.[8]
Danah Zohar defined 12 principles underlying spiritual intelligence:[9]
- Self-awareness: Knowing what I believe in and value, and what deeply motivates me.
- Spontaneity: Living in and being responsive to the moment.
- Being vision- and value-led: Acting from principles and deep beliefs, and living accordingly.
- Holism: Seeing larger patterns, relationships, and connections; having a sense of belonging.
- Compassion: Having the quality of "feeling-with" and deep empathy.
- Celebration of diversity: Valuing other people for their differences, not despite them.
- Field independence: Standing against the crowd and having one's own convictions.
- Humility: Having the sense of being a player in a larger drama, of one's true place in the world.
- Tendency to ask fundamental "Why?" questions: Needing to understand things and get to the bottom of them.
- Ability to reframe: Standing back from a situation or problem and seeing the bigger picture or wider context.
- Positive use of adversity: Learning and growing from mistakes, setbacks, and suffering.
- Sense of vocation: Feeling called upon to serve, to give something back.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_intelligence
- Yes looking at some of the definitions on the Wiki page I would suggest some synonyms for spiritual would be deep thinking, rather than shallow. Also ethical as fukitol said. Having integrity rather than moral cowardice.
- Also an advocate of personal growth. Someone who cares about others and the future of the planet. A big picture person. Having a sense of this is our home to take care of for our very survival rather than I must own stuff or I'm nobody. A feeling that we're all in this together and we need each other.
I can actually see the need for a phrase to describe all this and personally using spiritual intelligence doesn't offend me anymore than the word Jehovah does. They're just words. Being word phobic is a psychological problem. Get over it.