Spirituality and Emotional Intelligence

Lord, make me an instrument of Your Peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love;

Where there is injury, pardon;

Where there is doubt, faith;

Where there is despair, hope;

Where there is darkness, light;

And where there is sadness, joy.

Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek

To be consoled as to console;

To be understood as to understand;

To be loved as to love;

For it is in giving that we receive;

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;

And it is in dying that we are born to eternal light.

Saint Francis of Assisi (1182–1226) (Dwyer, 1998, p43)

Truth is one: the sages call it by many names.

Hindu scripture (Campbell, 1988, pXVII)