One of the clearest signs of growth is the safety you feel within yourself. It stops looking like effort. It looks like recognition. Not because something new appeared. Because something that was always there finally became visible. You stop searching for evidence. You stop measuring progress. You stop wondering whether anything is missing. And instead, you notice something simple. You respond differently. You see differently. You move through familiar situations without carrying the same weight into them. The change is subtle. Almost easy to miss. Until one day you realize that what once required effort now feels natural. Not because you became someone else. Because you stopped arguing with what you already knew. That is the quiet nature of realization. It rarely arrives as a dramatic transformation. More often, it arrives as recognition. A clear seeing. A simple knowing. A moment when what is true no longer requires convincing. Not from anyone else. And not from you.