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- noun the fulfillment of your capacities
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Examples
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Or was he writing a study in female self-realisation?
Review | Theatre | Rocket to the Moon | Venue | Michael Billington 2011
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Still, the loss of the comradeship and the self-realisation that socialism had promised was hard to recover from; as was the possibility which she refused with customary honesty to dispel entirely: that one may have done wrong in its name.
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But it's typical of the American musical's hymn to individualism that the show ultimately becomes about the self-realisation of the shy guy who is told: "Be yourself and through the darkness you'll prevail."
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But it's typical of the American musical's hymn to individualism that the show ultimately becomes about the self-realisation of the shy guy who is told: "Be yourself and through the darkness you'll prevail."
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George's prostate cancer diagnosis brings a moment of existential self-realisation: "I've been living like a demented god!"
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Nirvana is where the twofold passions have subsided and the twofold hindrances are cleared away and the twofold egolessness is patiently accepted; is where, by the attainment of the “turning-about” in the deepest seat of consciousness, self-realisation of Noble Wisdom is fully entered into, – that is the Nirvana of the Tathagatas.
Think Progress » Right-Wing Fringe Rebels Against Palin Over Her Endorsement Of ‘RINO’ McCain 2010
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The piece was choreographed by Yuri Grigorovitch in 1968, and audiences were invited to identify Spartacus and his brave band with the Soviet state, struggling for self-realisation in a hostile world.
Spartacus; Laurencia 2010
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Playboy chimed with and helped to shape the permissive zeitgeist and, in a culture that came to associate sex with self-realisation, Hefner became a symbol and spokesperson for the so-called sexual revolution.
Hugh Hefner in six volumes Christopher Turner 2010
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Theories of value that focus on curbing desire run up against the demand for self-realisation, which is one of the strongest impulses in modern life.
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Mandelson's bank-swelling memoir, The Third Man, seems to have as its cutting edge another assault on Brown, which is – at least as advertised so far – entirely familiar: the rage against Tony Blair, the contemptuous henchpeople tripping up Peter behind the scenes; the moments of self-realisation and sadness too.
Labour must now stop this self-flagellation and regroup 2010
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