Concept of spiritual intelligence

Definitions of spiritual intelligence rely on the concept of spirituality as being distinct from religiosity.
Danah Zohar defined 12 principles underlying spiritual intelligence:
◾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.
Robert Emmons defines spiritual intelligence as "the adaptive use of spiritual information to facilitate everyday problem solving and goal attainment. He originally proposed 5 components of spiritual intelligence:
1.The capacity to transcend the physical and material.
2.The ability to experience heightened states of consciousness.
3.The ability to sanctify everyday experience.
4.The ability to utilize spiritual resources to solve problems.
5.The capacity to be virtuous.
The fifth capacity was later removed due to its focus on human behavior rather than ability, thereby not meeting previously established scientific criteria for intelligence.
Frances Vaughan offers the following description: "Spiritual intelligence is concerned with the inner life of mind and spirit and its relationship to being in the world."


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