Self-Development as a Spiritual Process: The Role of Empathy and Imagination in Finding Spiritual Orientation |
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Authors: | Hans A. Alma |
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Affiliation: | 1. Psychology and Meanings of Life, University for Humanistics, P.O. Box 797, 3500, Utrecht, AT, The Netherlands
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Abstract: | According to a dialogical view on self, self-development is characterized by integrating different perspectives in the internal dialogue that constitutes the self. This article explores the spiritual dimension of this process, referring to exchanging and integrating perspectives on what makes one’s life meaningful or fulfilling. It is argued that empathy and imagination are basic capacities for self-development and spiritual orientation, and that art and religion can contribute to this process by functioning as languages of personal resonance. |
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