to know yourself

"When Elizabeth had read the letter, she said, "Till this moment I never knew myself" (ch. 36, emphasis added).

That's quite a thing, to understand one's self, and by a letter of all things."

"[Some] things are quiet, personal things that you really cannot explain to anyone else. But to you they are things known..." Boyd K. Packer

Isn't it odd these things are the things you know best, yet, they are also the things you first reject...unless of course, you record, at least, the wheres and hows of your discovery and return often to remember?