self realization, n.Definitions

Self-realization is that without which men can starve as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Self-realization is being all that one can be, and thereby seeming to be more than one really is.

Self-realization is the great law of culture: to let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Self-realization is requisite to happiness — Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Self-realization is a strange term in that one doesn't actually realize oneself. If anything, one goes away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.