Mike Flanagan's Shiatsu Pages - Recommended reading, international directory of practitioners, online discussion group, pictures and descriptions of treatment.
Catarina M. Rato - Shiatsu practitioner gives details of the links of meridians and health problems, and a brief bio.
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Shiatsu An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Shiatsu
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Shiatsu A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Shiatsu
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Shiatsu Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Shiatsu
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Shiatsu All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Shiatsu
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Shiatsu You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Shiatsu
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Shiatsu You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Shiatsu
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Shiatsu Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Shiatsu
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Shiatsu The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Shiatsu
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Shiatsu Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Shiatsu
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Shiatsu If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Shiatsu
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Shiatsu "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Shiatsu
