Micciah discusses:
• Opinions, Judgments and Discernment. Notice for yourself when what you are thinking or believing or speaking about, right speech and offering is really your opinion. Judgments are connected to opinions. Be present, in order to be discerning, present, flexible, curious. View Section

In these times:
• How to lift ourselves up? Lifting yourself up begins with you. All of the paths to peace, kindness, as the Dalai Lama says, begin with you. View Section
• What is the teaching? Go back or go in to the love that is always waiting for you. Stay connected to love. View Section
• What is the shadow of it? You are encountering the shadow of this country. And the underlying, racism, hatred, other-making, the hatred of people who are different, (Of course they’re not different. They’re just other people.) of immigrants. View Section
• How to work with ourselves with what may be coming and how to be our own healers? Open to the idea you are a healer to yourself through your connection with the larger energies, through your connection with what you love, through other people. View Section

• What is the advantage of a diagnosis of mental illness? Be careful who names you. Much of diagnostic work can be destructive, but not all of it. It can be useful to understand something, but not to get trapped by it and then dismiss the person or the situation. View Section
• What happens to the personality in dementia? If you are with someone who has dementia, whatever kind, you can affirm their there-ness by recognizing that it’s there, even if it is completely different from the person you know, that the essential there-ness is present. View Section