self-realization

English

Etymology

self- +‎ realization

Noun

self-realization (countable and uncountable, plural self-realizations)

1. The fulfillment of one's own abilities or capacities, self-actualization.
2. The direct experience of being, in relation to one's inner nature as an unbounded creator of one's reality.
3. A realization about oneself
   • 1934, comment by Abdullah Yusuf Ali on Sura 38 verse 24 of the Qur'an

     Judged by the highest standard of those nearest to God, the thought of self-pride and self-righteousness had to be washed off from him [King David] by his own act of self-realisation and repentance.