Spirituality and Emotional Intelligence

Introduction

“This too shall pass.” In my eyes that ancient Persian saying is a deeply spiritual and emotionally intelligent statement. As Stephen Levine puts it,

A monk, when asked about the fragility of life, deliberately lets a cup fall and break. He immediately says, “Of course!” When my father’s grandchildren would break something he would immediately say, “Of course!” and, of course, they were expecting to be reprimanded for carelessness. Then he would say, “Oh good, now we got to see how that cup ended its life – because everything eventually ends!”

(Levine, 1982)

This book is about applying such wisdom to a deeper and more colorful understanding of emotional intelligence (or EQ). I’m not writing this to create a new fad, for fads too ...