Self-realization

Self-realization is an expression used in Western psychology, philosophy, and spirituality which refers to making the most of one's potential, typically via study, self-discipline, and service to humanity.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

The degree of the absence of thoughts is the measure of your progress towards Self-realization.~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Quotes

• Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
  • Sri Ramana Maharshi quoted by Goodreads

• The three states [of waking, dream and sleep] owe their existence to non-enquiry and enquiry puts an end to them. However much one may explain, the fact will not become clear till one attains Self-realization and wonders how one was blind to the self-evident and only existence so long.
  • Sri Ramana Maharshi in Be As You Are, The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (1985)

• The degree of the absence of thoughts is the measure of your progress towards Self-realization. But Self-realization itself does not admit of progress, it is ever the same. The Self remains always in realization. The obstacles are thoughts.
  • Sri Ramana Maharshi in Be As You Are, The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi (1985)

• Self-realization: fulfillment by oneself of the possibilities of one's character or personality.
  • Merriam-Webster Dictionary

• Self-realization: Fulfilment of one's own potential.
  • Oxford Dictionary

• Maslow describes the good life as one directed towards self-actualization, the pinnacle need. Self-actualization occurs when you maximize your potential, doing the best that you are capable of doing. Maslow studied individuals whom he believed to be self-actualized, including Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein, to derive the common characteristics of the self-actualized person.
  • Maslow: The 12 Characteristics of a Self-Actualized Person By David Sze, The Huffington Post (21 July 2015)

See also

• The Ageless Wisdom Teachings
• Asceticism
• Bodhi (awakening), a form of Buddhist spiritual enlightenment
• Discipline
• Ego
• Enlightenment (spiritual)
• Four Noble Truths
• Gospel of Thomas
• Higher self
• Initiation
• Mantra
• Meditation
• Mysticism
• Now
• Om
• Philosophy
• The Power of Now
• Prayer
• Self-control
• Spirituality