Sublime

Four times a year, Heiligenfeld organizes a “mindfulness day”—a day that patients and staff spend in silence. Patients are invited to remain entirely silent (they wear a tag with the word “silence” to remind each other), while the staff speaks only when needed, in whispers (staff wear a tag with the word “mindfulness”).

believing you harbor no such animus. These hidden biases can be detected via clever tests. For example, a person may say he has no racial prejudice, yet when presented with a reaction time test in which words that have pleasant or unpleasant connotations are paired with the words black or white, words with pleasant meaning are more quickly paired w

In the process of balancing, allow yourself to notice whatever attracts you.

sustains racial equity between racial groups. By policy, I mean written and unwritten laws, rules, procedures, processes, regulations, and guidelines that govern people. There is no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy. Every policy in every institution in every community in every nation is producing or sustaining either racial inequity

THE FIFTH PARAMITA, MENTAL STABILITY