8.15 This power of memory is a great power—indeed, an exceedingly great power, my God, a vast and boundless sanctuary. Who has ever penetrated to its furthest reaches? And it is a power of my own {171} mind; it belongs to my nature, and I cannot contain everything that I am. Is the mind, then, too small to contain itself—so that we must ask, “Where is this part of the mind that the mind itself does not contain? Is the mind outside itself and not within itself? How does the mind not contain itself?”
