self-realization

Noun

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

1. The fulfillment of one's own abilities or capacities; self-actualization.
   • 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.1994 October, Harry Hay, “Focussing On NAMBLA Obscures The Issues”, in Gay Community News, page 16
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.
   • 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.1934, comment by Abdullah Yusuf Ali on Sura 38 verse 24 of the Qur'an