Spiritual Intelligence Quotes

• Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Connections, Infinite

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Reality

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• When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Emotional, Human Nature

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 21, 2010

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• The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection.

  Albert Einstein

  Reflection, Thinking, Law

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Develop all four intelligences. PQ (physical intelligence) which represents 70 trillion cells that fight disease and digest your breakfast. IQ (intellectual intelligence) EQ (emotional intelligence) the sensing and wisdom of the heart - - and SQ (spiritual intelligence) having to do with meaning, purpose and integrity around your selected value system and your believed source. When combined, they change the world for good.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Integrity, Heart

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• Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man.

  Albert Einstein

  Mean, Thinking, Men

  Albert Einstein (1995). “Ideas and Opinions”, Three Rivers Press

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• Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may be able to master and to rule them, and in later ages take his place in the creative and directing hierarchies of the universe.

  Annie Besant

  Spiritual, Taken, Men

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• I believe that God is the source of all the universal, timeless principles. And to Him, I give all the credit and the glory. However, to a person who is not religious, I believe they can live to the highest level of their conscience and develop spiritual intelligence that surpasses most people, including many religious people, who profess but do not practice.

  Stephen Covey

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Never place a time limit on the healing. That is dictating to the spiritual intelligence that does its perfect work when it is not impeded by your questions and false beliefs.

  Raymond Charles Barker

  Spiritual, Healing, Perfect

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• Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Sacrifice

  Thomas Merton (2002). “No Man Is an Island”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Through persistent, effective, and diligent work, a person can accumulate knowledge in the form of facts, data, information, and experience. Intelligence, however, can only be gained through obedience. Thus, knowledge is a prerequisite to and foundation for true spiritual intelligence.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Data, Foundation

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