Interconnectedness and the Lucky Worm
The Six heart Virtues – Micro real life practice On any given day, countless situations arise—someone says something to me (or to someone else), I see something on TV or social media, I get cut off in traffic, I remember the past or anticipate the future. Sparks fly, triggering a cycle of thought. More thoughts […]
The Grocery Line Blessing
The Six heart Virtues – Micro-real life-practice A new beginning for 2026. This is the first in a new series offering simple, real-life examples of practicing the Six Heart Virtues in daily situations. At checkout, a customer argued loudly with the cashier. I felt judgment rising. I breathed compassion in, sent compassion out to both. […]
The mentor who was and wasn’t
The Mentor Who Was and Wasn’t A Six Heart Virtue Micro Life Practice I looked up to him; he was a mentor to me. I was hungry to learn, and I worked hard on the farm where I worked summers. I was in my element, and he treated me like a son. Years went by, […]
The Bringer of Love: To give or withhold love - we choose
John Lennon wrote the song All You Need Is Love in 1967, which was released as a single by The Beatles and later becoming a classic. Throughout his life, Lennon was an advocate for peace and love — yet this advocacy was often accompanied by turbulent relationships, drug use, soaring fame, and bursts of extraordinary creativity. He understood that […]
The Six Heart Virtues AI Guide
By Don Campbell I launched the Six Heart Virtues AI Guide in early April 2025. Initially, I created it for myself and a few close friends in our WingMakers study group, who are serious practitioners. As an eighteen-year practitioner of the six heart virtues myself, I wanted to develop an AI agent that was specifically […]
The Heart, Art and the Spiritual Quest of The Artist
Exploring the spiritual journey of three visionary artists: Wassily Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint, and James Mahu Korean writer Han Kang, author of The Vegetarian and other books and poetry, won the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature. In her speech at the ceremony, she read the first stanza of one of her poems: Where is love?It […]
The Big Picture: My Starring Role in Cinematic Reality
In my early life, I did not question who I was. My parents, family, and circle of friends validated me as a human in a world among other humans. It was obvious because there was no conflict in my local reality as to who else I could be. In my early years, this was not […]
The judgmental voice in my head
I look back on my life and see that I tended to be pretty hard on myself—judgmental, impatient, and intolerant more often than I’d care to admit. Yet, in my most lucid moments of closer observation, I see this as a contradiction, because I can see that it was not based on truth, and was […]
Come Back to Now
If there is one certainty, it is that my mind will wander, my thoughts will go to wild places, and my emotions will follow. That process will continue to varying degrees for the rest of my life. I accept this, but that does not mean I will stop trying to break the pattern and bring […]
The Universe, The Ultimate Teacher
If I pay attention—really pay attention—as I go about my day, I will notice the decisions I make continuously. I make countless decisions: what to eat, which way to turn, what to think, what to say, how to respond to others, how to spend my time, to follow an impulse, and so on. If I’m […]