self-realization
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English
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Etymology
From self- + realization.
Noun
self-realization (countable and uncountable, plural self-realizations)
- The fulfillment of one's own abilities or capacities; self-actualization.
- 1994 October, Harry Hay, “Focussing On NAMBLA Obscures The Issues”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
- 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.
- The direct experience of being, in relation to one's inner nature as an unbounded creator of one's reality.
- 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 by his own act of self-realisation and repentance.
- 1934, comment by Abdullah Yusuf Ali on Sura 38 verse 24 of the Qur'an