self-realization

Noun

 * 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.
 * 4) * 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.