self-understanding

noun

1. the ability to understand one's own actions

Example Sentences

He views astrology, in which he’s been interested for decades, as falling somewhere between “a fun game” and “a beautiful roadmap,” a tool in his quest for self-understanding instead of a religious truth.

From Los Angeles Times

The point of opening the caskets of our forgotten history is to foster the self-understanding necessary to empower the work of creating a future that upholds the democratic creed that “all men are created equal.”

From Salon

Self-acceptance won’t be easy, but it will first require self-understanding.

From Los Angeles Times

“I think people are just looking for meaning and self-understanding,” Ms. Stanizai said.

From New York Times

American Cardinal Raymond Burke, a frequent Francis critic, recently wrote that the synod and its new vision for the church “have become slogans behind which a revolution is at work to change radically the church’s self-understanding in accord with a contemporary ideology which denies much of what the church has always taught and practiced.”

From Washington Times