Nurture The 12 Transformative
Principles of Spiritual Intelligence
Asking Why?
Each of the 12 transformative principles are presented in first person. Read each description, affirmative thought, and daily check as though you were talking to yourself. Read through silently then read out loud. And remember, you are a beautiful person, a person of infinite worth, and unlimited potential.
Asking Why? Need to understand things, to get to the bottom of them. Valuing good questions over necessarily finite and short-term answers.
To nurture asking why I encourage questions from myself and others, I am open to challenge, and I always look for “the matter behind the matter,” the further truth or possibility behind any answer or explanation. I reward questions in others and encourage them to probe. I pay attention to surprising or anomalous events or facts—they are clues to seeing things from a wholly—and holy—new perspective. (Scientific revolutions always follow from incorporating anomalies that a previous science could not explain.)
Thoughts
- I am in awe of the great ocean of undiscovered truth that lay before me.
- I refuse to take anything for granted.
- I thrive on uncertainty and moving on.
- I am willing to question my own assumptions, values, and methods as well as those of others.
- I see that truth is infinite.
- I maintain a preference for good question over good answers.
Check
- Do I try to understand the meaning behind rules, customs, and events?
- Am I dissatisfied with first explanation?
- Do I like to glean the thinking behind other people’s pronouncements, to understand “where they are coming from”?
- Do I sometimes reflect on cultural or behavioral trends and wonder why they are as they are?
- Do I like to keep up to date with current affairs?
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