# Which loop does the passage close that you have left open?

_Theme: **patterns** - card 1/4 - 2026-04-28_

> The mind commands the hand to be moved; and such readiness is there, that command is scarce distinct from obedience. Yet the mind is mind, the hand is body. The mind commands the mind, its own self, to will, and yet it doth not. Whence this monstrousness? and to what end? It commands itself, I say, to will, and would not command, unless it willed, and what it commands is not done.

-- Saint Augustine, _The Confessions of Saint Augustine_

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