The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Spiritual Laws"
IDEALS OF THE MIND
a Wisdom of Thought
Our third conversation is with Thought. We believe in the ideal of the "American Scholar," in whom a knowledge of books is balanced by experience of nature and practical activity in the world. Innermost House provides a way of life where these three come together in one unity of conversation, from which all alike may take away what is useful to them in the pursuit of their own work. We believe in the ideals of the mind, the whole mind, the mind made whole with the entirety of life. We seek the living forms of a higher learning in the deepest foundations of experience.
