Light Quotes

“Housing 70% of the body's sense receptors, the eyes are the entry point for approximately 90% of all the information we learn in a lifetime (with the exception of blind people, who receive much of their knowledge from their other senses). As a matter of fact, of the three billion messages relayed to the brain every second, two billion are sent from the eyes.”
― Jacob Liberman, Light: Medicine of the Future: How We Can Use It to Heal Ourselves NOW

“Although the eyes and brain represent only 2% of body weight, they require 25% of our nutritional intake. The eyes alone use one-third as much oxygen as the heart, need ten to twenty times as much vitamin C as the joint capsules involved in the movement of our extremities, and require more zinc (our intelligence chemical) than any other organ system in the body.4”
― Jacob Liberman, Light: Medicine of the Future: How We Can Use It to Heal Ourselves NOW

“The human body is nourished directly by the stimulation of sunlight or nourished indirectly by eating foods, drinking fluids, or breathing air that has been vitalized by the sun's light energy. This light energy not only affects our physiological activities and moods, but recently it has been shown to produce an effect in the body similar to that produced by physical training and its resultant improvement in physical fitness. Dr. Zane Kime, in his book Sunlight, states that a series of exposures to sunlight will produce decreases in resting heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, blood sugar, and lactic acid in the blood following exercise; and increases in energy, strength, endurance, tolerance to stress, and ability of the blood to absorb and carry oxygen.9”
― Jacob Liberman, Light: Medicine of the Future: How We Can Use It to Heal Ourselves NOW

“Just as the shifting of gears in an automobile requires passing through the gear called "neutral," so this same phenomenon occurs in nature. Prior to the brightness of day shifting into the darkness of night, a well-known "flash of green" is frequently reported. Green, the center of the visible color spectrum, signifies the "neutral zone" or "drift course" through which all living things pass prior to entering a new phase of functioning or of life itself. From humanity's experience of the very first sunrise to the sunsets of the present, we continue to be awed by the beauty, power, life-creating, and life-sustaining properties emanating from light. It would appear, then, that our physiological and emotional centers are synchronized with nature by way of light, and that we truly seem to be the offspring of nature.”
― Jacob Liberman, Light: Medicine of the Future: How We Can Use It to Heal Ourselves NOW