15. Great is this power of memory, exceedingly great, O my God -- a large and boundless inner hall! Who has plumbed the depths of it? Yet it is a power of my
mind, and it belongs to my nature. But I do not myself grasp all that I am. Thus the
mind is far too narrow to contain itself. But where can that part of it be which it
does not contain? Is it outside and not in itself? How can it be, then, that the mind
cannot grasp itself? A great marvel rises in me; astonishment seizes me. Men go
forth to marvel at the heights of mountains and the huge waves of the sea, the
broad flow of the rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the orbits of the stars, and yet
they neglect to marvel at themselves.
-Saint Augustine, as culled from Confessions, Book X, Chapter VIII
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Never doubt Steve, that I marvel at you. E.
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