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7. Chibroxin. In: Sifton DW, editor. Physicians’ desk reference. Montvale (NJ): Medical Economics; 2001. p. 1888 –9. 8. Quixin. In: Sifton DW, editor. Physicians’ desk reference. Montvale (NJ): Medical Economics; 2001. p. 2872–3. 9. Ogawa GS, Hyndiuk RA. The fluoroquinolones: new antibiotics in ophthalmology. Int Ophthalmol Clin 1993;33:59-68. 10. Drlica K. Mechanism of fluoroquinolone action. Curr Opin Microbiol 1999;2:504-8. 11. Ernst ME, Ernst EJ, Klepser ME. Levofloxacin and trovafloxacin: the next generation of fluoroquinolones? Am J Health Syst Pharm 1997;54:2569-84. 12. Cagle G, Davis S, Rosenthal A, Smith J. Topical tobramycin and gentamycin in the treatment of ocular infections: a multicenter study. Curr Eye Res 1981– 82;1:523-34. 13. Jensen HG, Felix C. In vitro antibiotic susceptibilities of ocular isolates in North and South America. In Vitro Antibiotic Testing Group. Cornea 1998;17:79-87. 14. O’Donnell JA, Gelone SP. Fluoroquinolones. Infect Dis Clin North Am 2000;14:489-513.
15. King DE, Malone R, Lilley SH. New classification and update on the quinolone antibiotics. Am Fam Physician 2000;61:2741-2748. 16. North DS, Fish DN, Redington JJ. Levofloxacin, a second-generation fluoroquinolone. Pharmacotherapy 1998;18:915-35. 17. Graves A, Henry M, O’Brien TP, Hwang DG, Van Buskirk A, Trousdale MD. In vitro susceptibilities of bacterial ocular isolates. Cornea 2001;20:301-5. 18. Friedlaender MH. A review of the causes and treatment of bacterial and allergic conjunctivitis. Clin Ther 1995;17:800-10. 19. Wald ER. Conjunctivitis in infants and children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1997;16(Suppl 2):S17-20. 20. George J, Morrissey I. The bactericidal activity of levofloxacin compared with ofloxacin, D-ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, sparfloxacin and cefotaxime against Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Antimicrob Chemother 1997;39:719-23. 21. Hayden G. Pink eye (infectious conjunctivitis) after the newborn period. The Children’s Hospital of Iowa Virtual Hospital. http:// www.vh.org/Patients/IHB/Peds/Infectious/PinkEye.html. Accessed March 15, 2001.
An Eye on the Arts – The Arts on the Eye
But images that we deliberately foster without any obsessive inward leading can also have a transforming power. Meditation on a golf ball may help you get a sense of life’s wholeness, for a sphere is an archetype of perfection (Parmenides thought Being Itself was a globe); or contemplating its diminutive size, the fact that it weighs just an ounce and a half, may lead you to see that in some sense this world is light as a feather, that all life is, as Shivas said, “an earthy nothingness.” In his journal he had written that “meditation is an art we need—we lose our way so easily in this teeming world. . .with eyes open and with eyes closed, on prophetic images and the consequences of our acts, until true gravity takes us up.” Along with our inward turnings he would have us stay open to all around us, including the disarray our acts so often bring. On a golf course he was insistent that we follow the flight of every shot to the very end—no matter how bad that shot may be. That is the only way to learn from our mistakes and our successes. It is the only way our unconscious mind can absorb the information it is given: and “we blind ourselves by turning away too soon.” (What lessons there for the rest of our life!) But the most basic kind of meditation during a round of golf is the visualization of our shot as we stand up to the ball. An image in our mind can become an irresistible path—it happened to me at Burningbush on the very first hole and later in that round after my greed for par had subsided. Many players will tell you they often see their shot before they make it. Many well-known teachers recommend visualization as one of the game’s most important secrets. —Michael Murphy (from Golf in the Kingdom)
Journal of AAPOS Volume 7 Number 5 October 2003
Lichtenstein et al
7. Chibroxin. In: Sifton DW, editor. Physicians’ desk reference. Montvale (NJ): Medical Economics; 2001. p. 1888 –9. 8. Quixin. In: Sifton DW, editor. Physicians’ desk reference. Montvale (NJ): Medical Economics; 2001. p. 2872–3. 9. Ogawa GS, Hyndiuk RA. The fluoroquinolones: new antibiotics in ophthalmology. Int Ophthalmol Clin 1993;33:59-68. 10. Drlica K. Mechanism of fluoroquinolone action. Curr Opin Microbiol 1999;2:504-8. 11. Ernst ME, Ernst EJ, Klepser ME. Levofloxacin and trovafloxacin: the next generation of fluoroquinolones? Am J Health Syst Pharm 1997;54:2569-84. 12. Cagle G, Davis S, Rosenthal A, Smith J. Topical tobramycin and gentamycin in the treatment of ocular infections: a multicenter study. Curr Eye Res 1981– 82;1:523-34. 13. Jensen HG, Felix C. In vitro antibiotic susceptibilities of ocular isolates in North and South America. In Vitro Antibiotic Testing Group. Cornea 1998;17:79-87. 14. O’Donnell JA, Gelone SP. Fluoroquinolones. Infect Dis Clin North Am 2000;14:489-513.
15. King DE, Malone R, Lilley SH. New classification and update on the quinolone antibiotics. Am Fam Physician 2000;61:2741-2748. 16. North DS, Fish DN, Redington JJ. Levofloxacin, a second-generation fluoroquinolone. Pharmacotherapy 1998;18:915-35. 17. Graves A, Henry M, O’Brien TP, Hwang DG, Van Buskirk A, Trousdale MD. In vitro susceptibilities of bacterial ocular isolates. Cornea 2001;20:301-5. 18. Friedlaender MH. A review of the causes and treatment of bacterial and allergic conjunctivitis. Clin Ther 1995;17:800-10. 19. Wald ER. Conjunctivitis in infants and children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1997;16(Suppl 2):S17-20. 20. George J, Morrissey I. The bactericidal activity of levofloxacin compared with ofloxacin, D-ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, sparfloxacin and cefotaxime against Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Antimicrob Chemother 1997;39:719-23. 21. Hayden G. Pink eye (infectious conjunctivitis) after the newborn period. The Children’s Hospital of Iowa Virtual Hospital. http:// www.vh.org/Patients/IHB/Peds/Infectious/PinkEye.html. Accessed March 15, 2001.
An Eye on the Arts – The Arts on the Eye
But images that we deliberately foster without any obsessive inward leading can also have a transforming power. Meditation on a golf ball may help you get a sense of life’s wholeness, for a sphere is an archetype of perfection (Parmenides thought Being Itself was a globe); or contemplating its diminutive size, the fact that it weighs just an ounce and a half, may lead you to see that in some sense this world is light as a feather, that all life is, as Shivas said, “an earthy nothingness.” In his journal he had written that “meditation is an art we need—we lose our way so easily in this teeming world. . .with eyes open and with eyes closed, on prophetic images and the consequences of our acts, until true gravity takes us up.” Along with our inward turnings he would have us stay open to all around us, including the disarray our acts so often bring. On a golf course he was insistent that we follow the flight of every shot to the very end—no matter how bad that shot may be. That is the only way to learn from our mistakes and our successes. It is the only way our unconscious mind can absorb the information it is given: and “we blind ourselves by turning away too soon.” (What lessons there for the rest of our life!) But the most basic kind of meditation during a round of golf is the visualization of our shot as we stand up to the ball. An image in our mind can become an irresistible path—it happened to me at Burningbush on the very first hole and later in that round after my greed for par had subsided. Many players will tell you they often see their shot before they make it. Many well-known teachers recommend visualization as one of the game’s most important secrets. —Michael Murphy (from Golf in the Kingdom)