{"id":2855,"date":"2025-02-03T21:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T21:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/?p=2855"},"modified":"2025-02-26T19:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:41:19","slug":"ancient-wisdom-for-the-present-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/news-and-insights\/ancient-wisdom-for-the-present-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Wisdom for the Present Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2877\" src=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Book-Graphic-Long-2-300x100.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Book-Graphic-Long-2-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Book-Graphic-Long-2-768x257.png 768w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Book-Graphic-Long-2-1024x343.png 1024w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/Book-Graphic-Long-2.png 1273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Four Agreements, by don Miguel Ruiz, tells us about the wisdom of ancient Toltec culture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2862\" src=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/19-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/19-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/19-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/19-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/19-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/19.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2863\" src=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/20-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/20.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2864\" src=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/21-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/21.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2865\" src=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/22-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-content\/uploads\/22.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Be impeccable with your word. Don&#8217;t take anything personally.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t make assumptions. Always do your best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Samaritan board member and retired therapist, Peggy Hansen, has written the following questions to help you reflect:<\/h5>\n<p>As you think about these four simple descriptions of wise behavior, do they remind you of other things you\u2019ve learned or believed over the years?<\/p>\n<p>If you were to create your own advice to yourself today, what would be your four suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Want to read more?<\/h4>\n<h6>You can find The Four Agreements and other works by don Miguel Ruiz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miguelruiz.com\/books\/\">here<\/a>.<\/h6>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Four Agreements, by don Miguel Ruiz, tells us about the wisdom of ancient Toltec culture. \u00a0 Be impeccable with your word. Don&#8217;t take anything personally. Don&#8217;t make assumptions. Always do your best. &nbsp; Samaritan board member and retired therapist, Peggy Hansen, has written the following questions to help you reflect: As you think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9HFgk-K3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2855"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2855\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samaritanps.org\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}