Spiritual Intelligence
Paths to Awakening
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Daniel Goleman
We’re all familiar with the concept of mindfulness, and most of us know that it is a harvest from Eastern thought, translated into an American psychological idiom. Mindfulness practice has benefited countless people.
But mindfulness is only the surface level of contact with modes of mind that are deeper and more transcendent. In many schools and lineages of Buddhist thought, there is agreement on an upward path to a pinnacle widely known as awakening.
This is not a subject that one can come at straight. Daniel Goleman is not claiming to be awakened; to say that you are may mean you are not. But for more than five decades he has investigated the path to this ideal and the special people who bear the marks of a remarkable inner ascent. We meet some of them here.
Spiritual Intelligence beautifully blends a personal account of Goleman’s journey, with a reflection on the crux of what this seeker has come to believe about the stages on the path to awakening—what they may be and what they aren’t. What the extraordinary humans, stories, and ideas of this book make clear is that it is only when self-interest falls away and an ethical orientation toward kindness, equanimity, and selflessness is embraced that the path before you truly opens. Though the outcome is not guaranteed, the commitment itself makes all the difference.
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Critic reviews
“My friend Daniel Goleman spent decades explaining and popularizing vital aspects of human psychology. Now, in a brave move, he drops the journalistic objectivity and tells the fascinating personal story of his encounters with mystics and the mystical. I found it both gripping and illuminating.” — Dan Harris, New York Times bestselling author and host of the 10% Happier podcast.
"Dan Goleman was there from the beginning. As a student of psychology, a young adventurer in India, a celebrated journalist, a documenter of emotional, social, and ecological intelligence, a life-long meditation practitioner, and disciple of some of the greatest sages and meditation teachers of our time, Dan is the ideal person to 'report from the front' and inspire all of us to access, develop, and embody to its fullest our own spiritual intelligence." — Jon Kabat-Zinn, Founder of MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction), author of Wherever You Go, There You Are, and Meditation is Not What You Think
"What a marvelous book! Science meets spirit in this candid, compelling account of Dann Goleman's lifelong quest to answer the biggest question of all: is awakening real? Part intimate journey, part inquiry into spiritual intelligence, this book is honest, inspiring, surprising, and profound." — Roshi Joan Halifax, Abbot, Upaya Zen Center
"Dan Goleman was there from the beginning. As a student of psychology, a young adventurer in India, a celebrated journalist, a documenter of emotional, social, and ecological intelligence, a life-long meditation practitioner, and disciple of some of the greatest sages and meditation teachers of our time, Dan is the ideal person to 'report from the front' and inspire all of us to access, develop, and embody to its fullest our own spiritual intelligence." — Jon Kabat-Zinn, Founder of MBSR (mindfulness-based stress reduction), author of Wherever You Go, There You Are, and Meditation is Not What You Think
"What a marvelous book! Science meets spirit in this candid, compelling account of Dann Goleman's lifelong quest to answer the biggest question of all: is awakening real? Part intimate journey, part inquiry into spiritual intelligence, this book is honest, inspiring, surprising, and profound." — Roshi Joan Halifax, Abbot, Upaya Zen Center
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