Meaning of self-realization | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The fulfillment of one's own abilities or capacities; self-actualization.
   countable, uncountable
2. The direct experience of being, in relation to one's inner nature as an unbounded creator of one's reality.
   countable, uncountable
3. A realization about oneself.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“We must, as a movement, address the needs of our Gay/Lesbian youth whose experience of puberty, instead of providing a joyous self-realization and affirmational discovery, plunges them into a snake pit of self-loathing.”

“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.”

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