Robert Emmons:

- schopnost byt cnostnym clovekom - schopnost budovat cnosti

-  schopnst posvacovat kazdodenne skusenosti

- schopnost zazivat vyssiu sferu vedomia

 - schopnost vyuzivat duchovne zdroje pre iesenie problemov

- capacita transendentna fytickeho a materialneho sveta

Danah Zohar

- povolanie . schopnost citit povolanie k sluzbe

- empatia

- ctit si inych, ked su rozdielni a nie napriek tym rozdielom,

ucit sa z chyb, z utrpenia,

- spontannost

- sebauvedomenie - vediet, v co verim, aku mam hodnotu - a co ma hlboko motivuje

-mat vizie a hodnoty - knat podla principov, a hlbokej viery a zit podla toho

- nepohybovat sa s prudom a mat valstne presvedcenie

- pokora - mat vedomie, ze som sucastou sveta a mam svoje miesto vo svete

- tendencia pytast sa Preco? Nie slep prijimat

- schopnost znovazaramovat skutocnost - skutocnost vidiet v sirsich suvislostiach

- holizmus - vieidet sirsie usvisloati

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Danah Zohar defined 12 principles underlying spiritual intelligence:^[8]

• 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.

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."^[10]

Cindy Wigglesworth defines spiritual intelligence as "the ability to act with wisdom and compassion, while maintaining inner and outer peace, regardless of the circumstances."^[11] She breaks down the competencies that comprise SQ into 21 skills, arranged into a four quadrant model similar to Daniel Goleman's widely used model of emotional intelligence or EQ. The four quadrants of spiritual intelligence are defined as:

1. Higher Self / Ego self Awareness
2. Universal Awareness
3. Higher Self / Ego self Mastery
4. Spiritual Presence / Social Mastery^[11]

David B. King has undertaken research on spiritual intelligence at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. King defines spiritual intelligence as a set of adaptive mental capacities based on non-material and transcendent aspects of reality, specifically those that:

"...contribute to the awareness, integration, and adaptive application of the nonmaterial and transcendent aspects of one's existence, leading to such outcomes as deep existential reflection, enhancement of meaning, recognition of a transcendent self, and mastery of spiritual states."^[12]

King further proposes four core abilities or capacities of spiritual intelligence:

1. Critical Existential Thinking: The capacity to critically contemplate the nature of existence, reality, the universe, space, time, and other existential/metaphysical issues; also the capacity to contemplate non-existential issues in relation to one's existence (i.e., from an existential perspective).
2. Personal Meaning Production: The ability to derive personal meaning and purpose from all physical and mental experiences, including the capacity to create and master a life purpose.
3. Transcendental Awareness: The capacity to identify transcendent dimensions/patterns of the self (i.e., a transpersonal or transcendent self), of others, and of the physical world (e.g., nonmaterialism) during normal states of consciousness, accompanied by the capacity to identify their relationship to one's self and to the physical.
4. Conscious State Expansion: The ability to enter and exit higher states of consciousness (e.g. pure consciousness, cosmic consciousness, unity, oneness) and other states of trance at one's own discretion (as in deep contemplation, meditation, prayer, etc.