Spiritual intelligence and divine design
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“Collective spiritual intelligence (SQ) is low in modern society,” physicist and philosopher Danah Zohar has said. “We live in a spiritually dumb culture characterized by materialism, expediency, narrow self-centredness, lack of meaning and dearth of commitment.”
However discouraging that assessment may sound, she goes on to describe how, as individuals “we can act to raise our personal SQ – indeed, the further evolution of society depends upon enough individuals doing so …”
Among the ways she describes that we can light up that darkness are to use our inner gifts:
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- “to look for the connections between things;
- to bring to the surface the assumptions we have been making about the meaning behind and within things;
- to become more reflective;
- to reach beyond ourselves a little;
- to take responsibility;
- to become more self-aware; and
- to be more honest with ourselves and more courageous.”
“Happy are those who spend their days in gaining knowledge, in discovering the secrets of nature, and in penetrating the subtleties of pure truth,” ‘Abdu’l-Bahá has reminded in a book called Some Answered Questions.
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SO! The means of raising our SQ — and assuring the further evolution of society — is also – the source of happiness!
Each day presents us with a blank new canvas on which to place our steps toward this.
The world may seem a mess, but divine design remains both wondrous and unlimited, when we turn toward it and receive it with willingness.
Explore more about the spiritual invitation of our times in With Thine Own Eyes: Why Imitate the Past, When We Can Investigate Reality? at:
Also available in print version from the publisher at: http://grbooks.com/george-ronald-publisher-books/spirituality/with-thine-own-eyes-1380638499
