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Quotable Quotes on Vision
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When a patient says he has
no time to practise, he is mistaken.
He has all the time there is to use his eyes in the right way,
or he can use them in the wrong way.
He has just as much time to use his eyes properly
as he has to use them improperly.
William H Bates, MD, Better Eyesight magazine,
May 1924
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On a tomb in the Church of
Santa Maria Maggiore in Florence
was found an inscription which read:
"Here lies Salvino degli Armati, Inventor of Spectacles.
May
God pardon him his sins."
Nuova Enciclopedia Italiana, Sixth Edition
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It has been demonstrated in thousands
of cases that all abnormal action of the external muscles of
the eyeball is accompanied by a strain or effort to see, and that with the relief of this strain
the action of the
muscles becomes normal and all errors of refraction disappear.
William H Bates, MD, Perfect Sight Without Glasses,
page 89
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The ways in which people strain
to see are infinite, and the
methods used to relieve the strain must be
almost equally varied.
Whatever the method that brings most relief, however,
the end is always the same, namely relaxation.
William H Bates, MD, Perfect Sight Without Glasses,
page 101
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The eye with normal sight never
tries to see.
If for any reason, such as the dimness of the light,
or the distance of the object,
it cannot see a particular point, it shifts
to another.
It never tries to bring out the point by staring at it,
as
the eye with imperfect sight is constantly doing.
William H Bates, MD, Perfect Sight Without Glasses,
page 107
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The act of seeing is passive. Things
are seen, just as they are felt, or
heard, or tasted, without effort or volition on the part of the subject.
When sight is perfect the letters on the test card are waiting,
perfectly
black and perfectly distinct, to be recognized.
William H Bates, MD, Perfect Sight Without Glasses,
page 108
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Mental strain of any kind always
produces a conscious or unconscious eyestrain and if the strain takes
the form of an effort to see,
an error of refraction is always produced.
William H Bates, MD, Perfect Sight Without Glasses,
page 109
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We see very largely with the mind,
and only partly with the eyes.
The phenomena of vision depend upon
the mind's interpretation
of the impression
upon the retina.
What we see is not that impression,
but our own interpretation
of it.
William H Bates, MD, Perfect Sight Without Glasses,
page 148
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Behead yourself!...
Dissolve your whole body into Vision: become seeing, seeing, seeing!
Rumi
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People see only what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Eyes do not tell people what they
see, people tell eyes what to look for.
Larry McDonald, OD
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When the doors of perception are
cleansed,
men will see things as they truly are,
infinite.
William Blake
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Over half the people in the United
States wear corrective lenses,
and almost all of them are capable of seeing much more clearly -
if they would only
experiment with changing their ideas about vision.
Jacob Liberman, OD, PhD, Take off your glasses and see,
page 6
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The suspicion began to dawn on
me slowly that among the causes of
progressive myopia it might be necessary
to list concave (minus) lenses themselves. From many articles that have
appeared in the past on the subject of 'Optical Poison', a familiar term
a decade ago, many other optometrists
appear to have the same idea.
Samuel Druker of Brooklyn,
NY, in the Optical Journal of March 15, 1946
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I've found, however, that real
change only comes when we let go of the struggle, when we stop trying,
and that the greatest key to healing our vision is also the simplest one:
expanding our awareness.
Jacob Liberman, OD, PhD, Take off your glasses and see,
page 68
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From my experience in this land
of myopes (i.e. China)
I have formed
strong prejudices against the evil of weak minus prescriptions in all ages.
C.P. Rakusen, OD, Shanghai, China
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Myopia, in more than ninety-five
percent of cases,
begins between five and ten years of age.
It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens.
Dr. Rasmussen
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I would like to have a law established
forbidding the prescribing
of minus glasses without extenuating circumstances.
Neville Schuller, vision
specialist of Toronto, Canada, 1938
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I have yet to
hear of a research paper confirming the beneficial effect of prescribing
compensatory lenses. I am sure most optometrists will confirm the
clinical observation that patients who receive compensatory lenses for
full time wear are usually the ones
who need a stronger prescription every year.
J. Liberman OD, PhD
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Spectacle
lenses can create their own problems. There are frequently ignored
patterns of addiction to minus lenses. The typical prescription tends to
overpower and fatigue the visual system and what is often a transient
condition becomes a lifelong situation, which is likely to deteriorate
with time.
S. Gallup
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When
one's mind is under a strain one unconsciously tightens the muscles which
encircle the eyeball, and consequently squeeze it out of shape and out of
focus.
But when the mind is at rest these muscles are relaxed and the eyeball is
allowed to assume its proper shape and focus.
William H Bates, MD, Better Eyesight magazine,
May 1923
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Most of my
patients always do better when they have someone with perfect sight to
encourage them by their example or advice.
William H Bates, MD, Better Eyesight magazine,
July 1922
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A
great many people spend more time hunting bargains in eyeglasses, and in
getting the kind of rims adapted to their particular style of beauty,
than it would take to cure their eyes by following the method outlined
along the lines of common sense.
Minnie
E. Marvin,
Better Eyesight magazine,
September
1923
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It
is a mistake to believe that even though the glasses do no good they
cannot do harm. Glasses keep
up the strain. A person
wearing glasses for myopia has to strain all the time in order to make
the eyeball elongated sufficiently to fit the glasses.
William H Bates, MD, Better Eyesight magazine,
September
1922
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All things were
the same in my little bedroom yet totally changed.
Still sitting in wonder on the edge of my narrow bed, one of the first
things I realized was that the focus of my sight seemed to have changed;
it had sharpened to an infinitely small point which moved ceaselessly in
paths totally free of the old accustomed ones, as if flowing from a new
source.
Flora Courtois, An
Experience of Enlightenment, 1986
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Eyestrain
can be cured so easily in the average child by Dr. Bates' method that it
should be against the law to fit children with glasses.
Paul Hotson,
OD, Better Eyesight magazine, December
1925
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