Your greatest barrier to progression is an inflated perception of your true state. Your perception of available truth is far less than reality. In all likelihood, you believe you have much more truth than you actually do. If you turn to God and seek more truth will all your heart, might, mind, and strength, he will show you what you lack. “He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.” (Daniel 2:22) He artfully orchestrates each life to abundantly display what we lack in order to best help us turn to him to improve:
And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them. (Ether 12:27)
The Lord knows everything; we know nothing. The Lord is all loving; we love wickedness. Do we believe this? If so, should we not assume that God’s path will diverge from what we would choose for ourselves if left to ourselves? And is not any such deviation a blessing?
The key to expanding our knowledge is to trust God and seek him without reservation:
And if your eye be single to my glory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light comprehendeth all things. (D&C 88:67)
49 The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not; nevertheless, the day shall come when you shall comprehend even God, being quickened in him and by him.
50 Then shall ye know that ye have seen me, that I am, and that I am the true light that is in you, and that you are in me; otherwise ye could not abound. (D&C 88)
We can become aware of all things, but it will take a great deal of time and effort. Until then we need—and ironically, can only get there by developing—tremendous trust in God.
Trust in God is shown by relentlessly reconciling yourself to the light that you have. You admit that you don’t know a great deal, and therefore are undoubtedly committing to paths that are less than optimal, but you understand what it means to do your best, and as you do it unfailingly, you can trust that any proximate outcome is exactly what is needed to help you get to something better. This kind of attitude provides peace far beyond what is available in the world. It is the peace Jesus promised in what seems like the contradictory situation of bearing the yoke his way of living provides.