Although Yoda is a fictional character in the Star Wars film franchise, the words of the great Jedi Master have become a guiding force in many people's lives over the years.
Most people will say that he "talked funny," but in fact, his philosophy taught him valuable lessons that apply in real life. Here are the main six:
• Focus and stay mindful • Stop predicting the consequences of your actions • Stop being negative • Learn to control your impulses • Practice letting go of the past • Patience is essential in everything you do
Today we will present 39 famous Yoda quotes that will give you the impetus to take action, achieve success and grow in your life, and not just dream. They also apply when we start to procrastinate. His statements will help you not only if you are planning to become a Jedi, but also in everyday life. These are inspirational quotes from Yoda, about choice and learning, about fear and the dark side.
39 Famous Yoda Quotes
First of all, let's look at quotes that inspire. The Jedi's words are meant to encourage and reassure you that there is hope, even in your darkest hour.
39 Inspirational Yoda Quotes
“Your weapon, you won’t need it.” — Yoda
“You will only find what you bring.” — Yoda
“Stay in a tight spot when you have to.” — Yoda
“The luminous beings are us... and not this gross matter.” — Yoda
“You will find the good in the bad when you are calm and passive.” — Yoda
“Size doesn't matter. Look at me. Judge me by my size, right?” — Yoda
"The mind of a child is truly remarkable." — Yoda
"Feel the power!" — Yoda
“In a dark place we find ourselves, and only knowledge illuminates our path.” — Yoda
“Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who are turning into Power. There is no need to mourn them. There’s no need to miss them.” — Yoda
“Through the Force you will see things. Other places. The future... the past. Old friends are long gone." — Yoda
“Should I tell you a secret? I am the Grand Master of the Jedi Order. Won this job in the lottery, what do you think? "How did you know, how did you know, Master Yoda?" Master Yoda knows all this. Its' his job". — Yoda
“Don't try. Do it or don't do it. There's no trying." — Yoda
"Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi does not crave these things." — Yoda
“To meet force with force is not the way of the Jedi. In this war there is a danger of losing who we are." — Yoda
"Let the force be with you". — Yoda
In life we all make choices. Most of these decisions are as simple as choosing what to wear, while other decisions we need to make will affect the course of our lives for years to come.
Sometimes the choices we make lead us to happiness, and sometimes they cause us to feel guilty and regretful. Regardless of the outcome, the lesson was learned.
The great Jedi who trained Luke Skywalker constantly reminded his student of the importance of making the right choices.
Here we present Yoda's quotes about choice and learning.
The dark side quotes, aphorisms, statuses, phrases from around the world
An extensive collection of quotes, aphorisms, and statements from many sources on the topic of the Dark Side from a variety of authors. Are you looking for a beautiful aphorism for your text? Want to use a clever quote in an important conversation? Or do you just want to put a beautiful status on VKontakte or Instagram? Then use our list of quotes about the Dark Side compiled on this page.
...there was nowhere to retreat, doubt and worry were pointless, now I had only one thing left: somehow to live on, no matter what happened. Tags: Max Fry // Dark side // life //
Everything, everything, everything, I understood, got scared, disappeared! Tags: Max Fry // The Dark Side // funny quotes // mutual understanding //
We were kings in our world, but here we are called machines. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Sentinel Prime //
- Optimus, I have always wanted only one thing - for our race to survive. You must understand why I had to betray you. “You didn’t betray me.” You betrayed yourself. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Sentinel Prime // Optimus Prime // betrayal //
Tarrian, if someday a merchant on the street offers you a magic powder or potion to increase your brain power, do not refuse. In your case, you need to try all means! Tags: Elena Semenova // The Dark Side of the World. Academy of Magic Darna // Alfred Turger // stupidity //
Don't sweat the small stuff, okay? There are a huge number of other ways to spend your energy, and all of them are much better than your beloved worries about trifles! Tags: Max Fry // Dark Side //
A woman with such beautiful legs can afford any gait! Tags: Max Fry // Dark side // women //
When you are hurt and scared for a long time, fear and pain turn into hatred. And hatred changes the world. (When you've been tortured for so long, fear and pain become hate, and hate changes the world.) Tags: Silent Hill // Alessa's dark side // hate // pain // fear //
It is difficult to seduce a woman whom you address as “you”. Tags: Max Fry // The dark side // meaningful quotes // women // temptation //
Violating official instructions for personal purposes is the basics of our work! Tags: Max Fry // The Dark Side // funny quotes // work //
...many people are built in such a strange way that they listen only to what they are ready to hear in advance. And everything else is ignored... Tags: Max Fry // Dark side // man, people //
Whatever happens to us is right. Tags: Max Fry // The Dark Side // Max // inevitability, rock, fate //
You may lose faith in us, but not in yourself. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Optimus Prime // faith //
—Are you also familiar with these “stupid fears” that come from nowhere? - I was surprised. - Imagine how familiar they are! I even know for certain where they come from... Now I have almost forgotten this unpleasant feeling, but at first I was scared. And how scary! All the time, without a break for lunch. For a long time I balanced on the edge: on one side of me there were all the wonders of the Universe, and on the other... On the other side there was myself and everything that I tried to love - then it seemed to me that this would help fill the frightening emptiness in my heart. And on the border between both there was a stripe of fear. That's where I hung out. Too long for my taste! I was painfully looking for a way out, any road, as long as it would lead me away from this terrible border zone... I had to learn to hate myself and everything that surrounded me, because hatred turned out to be stronger than fear... Here is the answer to where the “great one” came from villain" Loiso Pondohwa. The most evil sorcerers come from the most frightened boys! Do you know what I'm talking about, Max? Tags: Max Fry // The Dark Side // Sir Max // Loiso Pondohwa // hatred //
“The past is legends,” said the Khan of the Orcs. The future is legends. - Then what is the present? “The present is a transition from one legend to another,” said Lance. Tags: Sergey Musanif // The dark side of the coin // meaningful quotes // past // future //
- Oh, did you come running to surrender? - It was worth it? - Obviously. You put so much effort into getting Sentinel back, and now he has all the power. This is a tragedy for you. “Do you dare lecture me, slave?” “Your Decepticons are now conquering this planet, but their leader is no longer you. - I will always be their leader! - One minute and you will be nothing. Six Sentinels... Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Megatron // Carly Spencer // ironic quotes // power //
“We are who we are,” said the count, pouring himself some wine. “And no one can change that.” I don't believe in freedom of choice. “And I believe,” I said. – If you don’t believe in freedom of choice, then what do you even believe in? - To fate. “You are a fatalist,” I said. “I’m a realist,” he said. – Although I fully admit the idea that this is one and the same thing. I have lived in this world for too long and I have well understood that the so-called “freedom of choice” is just an illusion. We become what we were destined to become from birth. Tags: Sergey Musanif // The dark side of the coin // meaningful quotes // inevitability, rock, fate // realism //
The real truth always lies on the other side of words, in an incomprehensible region, somewhere in the middle between what is said and what is hidden. Tags: Max Fry // The Dark Side // Sir Juffin Halley // the truth //
The path of a warrior is the path of a loner. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Seymour Simmons // loneliness // warrior //
- And where do we go next? - asked Arkadia. “It’s up to you,” answered the druid. “You don’t look too much like a shepherd,” Hanser remarked caustically. - No more than you in the herd... Tags: Sergey Dorosh // Dark Side of the Moon // Arcadia // Illuminati // Hanser //
... to take care of your own personal life <...> is much more pleasant (and smarter) than <...> poking your nose into someone else’s. Tags: Max Fry // Dark side // personal life //
We are all just the sum of our debts and responsibilities imposed on us before we were born. Tags: Sergey Musanif // The dark side of the coin // meaningful quotes // duty // responsibilities //
— Have you been waiting for me all night? - I've been waiting for you all my life. Tags: The Dark Side of the Sun // Rick Clayton // Frances //
A little more than half an hour, a little less than an eternity... Tags: Max Fry // The Dark Side // time //
But you know, if I hadn’t shouted about my many virtues at every corner, I would have become disgusting perfection. Otherwise I have a nice little flaw and everyone is happy. Tags: Max Fry // The Dark Side // Sir Max //
... the ultimate obstacle in the development of a race becomes its own worldview. Tags: Terry Pratchett // The Dark Side of the Sun //
“I saved the whole world, although not ours.” You think you're our hero, huh? - No . I'm just a messenger. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Dylan Gold // Sam Witwicky //
“There are no ordinary people,” said the count. – Every person who has ever trampled this earth considers himself the center of the universe. “He is the center of his own little universe,” I said. – And in this universe he is his own master. Tags: Sergey Musanif // The dark side of the coin // quotes with meaning // man, people //
… In what blissful ignorance do you use the expressions “alien” and “alien”: you have no idea how alien something can be. Tags: Terry Pratchett // The Dark Side of the Sun //
“He’s not the only one who smiles at me.” - That's not what worries me. I care that you smile back at him. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Sam Witwicky // Carly Spencer // jealousy //
When the war does not concern you, take the side of those who will win. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Dylan Gold // war // victory and victors //
Stupid Cyrillic! All the letters here are like unnecessary buttons on a calculator! Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Dutchman // ironic quotes // Russian language //
... the craziest fiction at any moment may turn out to be the only reality left at your disposal. In general, you are even obliged to take into account this possibility, and many others, much worse... Always remember them, and still love this beautiful World, and love us - the mysterious strangers who surround you - no matter what ! Tags: Max Fry // The Dark Side // Sir Juffin Halley // life // reality //
Only those who do not believe in anything do not harbor false hopes. Tags: Sergey Musanif // The dark side of the coin // meaningful quotes // faith // hope //
Defeat, if you manage to survive it, forces you to seek out internal reserves, gather your will into a fist, think about the mistakes you have made, defeat makes you better, stronger. Victory is the opposite. And the more significant the victory, the more difficult it is, the more it changes a person. Tags: Sergey Musanif // The dark side of the coin // life quotes // defeat // victory and winners //
Caviar? But I was always curious. In Protivusoloni, only the poor are allowed to eat it. You can probably get used to it. Tags: Terry Pratchett // The Dark Side of the Sun //
… We are all destined to wear chains, even if they are forged from chance and entropy. Tags: Terry Pratchett // The Dark Side of the Sun //
-You made the wrong choice. You were always the bravest of us, but you didn't know how to make difficult decisions. Our planet will live. - No... - We were once Gods. We all. But there will only be one God left here. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Sentinel Prime // Optimus Prime // life quotes // choice //
Good cannot exist without Evil, Light cannot exist without Darkness, Order itself is impossible if there is no Chaos nearby. These are just parts of one equation, and if you remove one variable, the whole formula breaks down. Tags: Sergey Musanif // The dark side of the coin // meaningful quotes // good // evil //
Born of the sun, we are gradually approaching the sun,” Isaac quoted one of the ancients. Tags: Terry Pratchett // The Dark Side of the Sun //
“It’s much easier for women in this regard.” They are at home everywhere: both here and here... “It would be more accurate to say that they are strangers everywhere,” Juffin objected, turning to us as he walked. – And this is why most women go out of their way to surround themselves with numerous false proofs that they stand firmly on their own two feet, instead of dangling with a light heart between heaven and earth, as they should... Tags: Max Fry // The Dark Side // Sir Juffin Halley // Women //
“Are they expecting to see monsters with super brains?” “I think they are more likely to expect to see the gods.” Super-intelligent monsters can still be dealt with, but gods are a completely different matter. Nobody wants to be a slave race. Tags: Terry Pratchett // The Dark Side of the Sun //
... the process of education is also very similar to some kind of sinister magic: day after day you are turned into someone you absolutely do not want to be. In the vast majority of cases this works. Tags: Max Fry // Dark side // education //
Good and evil in war are relative concepts, they mainly depend on who has the upper hand. Tags: Sergey Musanif // The dark side of the coin // life quotes // good // evil //
Better late than even later. Tags: Max Fry // Dark side // time //
How easy it is for fatalists to live in this world. No decisions need to be made. And the burden of responsibility will never fall on your shoulders. Tags: Sergey Musanif // The dark side of the coin // life quotes // fatalism // decision //
You can’t just move weapons of mass destruction into our atmosphere, you have to at least go through customs! A small formality called "documents" distinguishes us from animals. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Charlotte Mearing // ironic quotes // weapons // documents //
Understanding is the first step to control. Tags: Terry Pratchett // Dark Side of the Sun // understanding //
... We live in a truly infinite set of Universes, in space and time that have no limits, worlds without end... - in a creation so vast that we can call our Universe, given by cause-and-effect relationships, simply a circle of light from a candle. In such a totality, we can only echo the words of Don Quixote: “Everything is possible...”, “... Alternative Universes, countless millions of worlds, differing, perhaps, in the orbit of a single electron, are lined up on different “sides” of ours. The farther, the greater the differences - until in the deepening shadows at the edge of the imagination Universes would appear, not knowing time, stars, space and diet. Tags: Terry Pratchett // The Dark Side of the Sun //
For some reason, I really don’t want you to lose this battle with your own fear. There are battles that under no circumstances should be lost, although losing would be so easy, so sweet... Tags: Max Fry // Dark Side // Max // fear // loss //
People become your enemies if you give them even the slightest chance. Tags: Sergey Musanif // The dark side of the coin // life quotes // man, people // enemies, enmity //
A happy wife means a happy family. An unhappy wife is a murderous torment for the rest of your days. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Ron Witwicky // family // marriage // wives //
“Everyone knows that goodness must come with fists,” I agreed. “But nowhere is it indicated exactly what size fists goodness should have.” Tags: Sergey Musanif // The dark side of the coin // life quotes // good //
“If you don’t shoot at this building, then we will definitely die!” - I don’t care about this building! I'm already having a heart attack... Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon //
Fear is a normal human feeling... Perhaps the most normal and most human. Tags: Max Fry // Dark side // fear //
Disrespect for the merits of others is a crime. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Mini-con // respect // merits //
My compatriots, you know, go out of their way to escape reality for a while, each in their own way, although not everyone realizes this. Tags: Max Fry // Dark side // man, people // reality //
I will follow you until the end of time. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Sam Witwicky // devotion //
Intelligence is the main property that allows humanoids to survive. Therefore, it is even better when those who do not show it are weeded out. Tags: Terry Pratchett // Dark Side of the Sun // mind //
The course of each person’s life is determined by many factors that interact with each other, but there is no freedom of choice among them. There is only the illusion of choice, flattering human conceit, although in fact the decision made by an individual at one time or another is predetermined in advance. Tags: Sergey Musanif // The dark side of the coin // quotes with meaning // man, people // illusions //
But I didn’t hear anything, And I don’t care who kissed whom indirectly. Not a straight kiss - it's not even a kiss. And that doesn't bother me at all. Tags: The Dark Side of Brynhildr / Brynhildr in the Darkness (Gokukoku no Brynhildr / Brynhildr in the Darkness) // Neko Kuroha //
In an infinite Universe, everything is possible, including the possibility that this Universe does not exist. Tags: Terry Pratchett // The Dark Side of the Sun // Universe //
“Someday they will ask us: “Where were you when they captured our planet?” And we will answer: “We just stood and watched.” Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Seymour Simmons //
- Go to hell! - You can not see? We are already in Hell. Tags: Silent Hill 2 (Silent Hill: Revelation 3D) // Heather Mason // Alessa // the dark side of Alessa // //
Everything is over. I'm sorry, but it's over. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Robert Epps //
And don't you dare be sad. When a good person finally accepts his fate, there is no reason for the world to mourn. Tags: Max Fry // The Dark Side // Sir Juffin Halley // inevitability, rock, fate // sadness //
We were once a peaceful race of intelligent mechanical beings. But then a war began between the Autobots, who fought for freedom, and the Decepticons, who dreamed of tyranny. We were outnumbered and outgunned by the enemy, and our defeat seemed inevitable. But in the last days of the war, one of the Autobot ships managed to escape from the heat of the battle. He carried a secret cargo that was supposed to change the fate of our planet. A desperate mission is our last hope. But this hope disappeared... Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Optimus Prime // hope // civil war //
- It's time for us to conclude a truce. All I want is to be in charge again. And then... Who would you be without me, Prime? - Now we’ll find out. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Megatron // Optimus Prime //
“Girl,” Hanser grumbled. - Couldn't you find anyone better? - I almost defeated you! “You’ll be talking about “almost” in hell.” Tags: Sergey Dorosh // The Dark Side of the Moon // //
In any war, battles give way to calm. There may come a day when we lose faith, a day when our allies turn against us. But the day when we abandon this planet and the people living on it will never come. Tags: Transformers: Dark of the Moon // Optimus Prime // man, people // war // Earth (planet) //
One day it suddenly occurred to me that poems should only be written at the tables of small cafes, on napkins while you are waiting for your order, and you should not read them at all: reading only spoils good poems, so the written napkin should be crumpled up, or even better, thrown into the ashtray and burn it. Tags: Max Fry // Dark Side //
- What have you turned into, monster? It’s impossible to look at you without tears! “If it’s impossible to look at me without tears, it means I’ve turned into an onion.” Logical? Tags: Max Fry // Dark Side // Max // Sir Melifaro //
Yoda Quotes on Choice and Learning
“You can still learn a lot, my old Padawan. This is just the beginning." — Yoda
“Being a Jedi means facing reality and choosing. Bring light or darkness, Padawan. Be the candle or the night.” — Yoda
“I can't teach him. The boy has no patience." — Yoda
"A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, not attack." — Yoda
“You must decide how to best serve them. If you leave now, help them in any way you can; but you will destroy everything they fought and suffered for.” — Yoda
“Control, control, you must learn to control!” — Yoda
“Always share what you learn.” — Yoda
“There are always two, no more, no less. Master and student." — Yoda
"You must forget what you have learned." — Yoda
“If you haven't made a single mistake, you lose. It's a different game you have to play." — Yoda
“Remember what you learned. You can save it." — Yoda
“Are you ready? What do you know about readiness? For eight hundred years I trained the Jedi. I will continue to give advice to those who are studying.” — Yoda
“Do you think Yoda stops teaching just because his student doesn’t want to hear? Yoda is the teacher. Yoda teaches how drunkards drink, how murderers kill.” — Yoda
Often the biggest stumbling block to personal success is fear.
And in the Star Wars films, Yoda must constantly remind his apprentice that there is a reason to overcome what he fears most. Being consumed by fear is the easiest way to fall to the Dark Side.
Here we present Yoda's most popular quotes about fear and the Dark Side.
The shadow side of man
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The concept of the shadow side of personality was first coined by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, and refers to those aspects of our “Self” that we deny or suppress.
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According to Jung, every person has a “Persona” and a “Shadow”
. A persona is who we want to be and how we want others to see us. The word “persona” literally means “mask” in Latin, representing the different social masks we wear among different groups of people and situations.
Shadow
is what forms part of our unconscious and consists of repressed ideas, instincts, impulses, weaknesses, desires, perversions and shameful fears. It is often described as the shadow side of the psyche.
According to Carl Jung, we psychologically distance ourselves from those emotions, thoughts and behaviors that we find unacceptable. Instead of facing what we don't like, our psyche pretends it doesn't exist.
Angry outbursts, feelings of shame, immoral desires, phobias and forbidden sexual desires
- all these are examples of the Shadow, which is present in all people, but which few people recognize.
The more we avoid our Shadow, the more it grows inside us, and waits like a volcano to explode at the most unexpected moment.
Denial of the shadow side leads to chaos and disharmony. At the same time, accepting your shadow helps create inner psychological balance.
Here are some examples of shady behavior.
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The tendency to judge other people harshly, especially when done impulsively.
You may have caught yourself pointing out how “shady” or “stupid” another person looked.
Deep down, you wouldn't want anyone to single you out like that, so by judging someone else, you convince yourself that you're smart enough not to take the same risks as the other person.
You betray your own insecurities by pointing out the shortcomings of another person.
This has become especially obvious in the Internet era. If you look through the comments, you will always find many provocateurs calling the author “stupid,” “idiot,” “mediocre,” and so on.
Ironically, these trolls are the most insecure people.
Lose your temper quickly with people in a subordinate position.
Perhaps you have more than once encountered a situation where a person, taking advantage of his position, splashed out negativity on those who did not have the power to fight back. Exercising power over others is another shadowy way of compensating for one's own feelings of helplessness in the face of even greater power.
Play the victim in every situation.
Instead of admitting our “sin,” we are often willing to do anything to portray ourselves as a victim, an innocent and poor person who does not need to take responsibility.
Willingness to walk over corpses to achieve your goal.
People often glorify themselves without realizing that they may have gone to great lengths to achieve their success.
This can also be seen on a smaller scale when people vie for a place in line or cut each other off on the road.
Preconceptions and prejudices
We often judge others by their appearance. And while this behavior is understandable, it's easy to take toxic prejudice too far.
Given social pressures, we often prefer to pretend that we are not racist, misogynistic, or sexist, rather than work on ourselves to get rid of destructive stereotypes.
Messiah complex
Some people consider themselves so enlightened that they believe they can do no wrong. They interpret their actions as a desire to “save” others, to help them see the light, so to speak. In fact, this is another example of the dark side manifesting itself.
Jedi. Who are they?
Who are the Jedi? Creatures sensitive to the Force. Seemingly ordinary in themselves, in situations of need they could draw resources from their contact with the Force. Thanks to this, one Jedi in battle replaced dozens of ordinary warriors: the Force accelerated reactions, gave foresight, allowed them to make huge jumps similar to flight and much, much more. An important point that the reader probably missed: all this had to happen in situations of necessity .
How to distinguish them from many others? How do you know when to use the Force and when not to?
The Jedi were warriors of the world. They monitored the peace of the galaxy and came to the rescue if peace was disturbed. Using the Force for these purposes was permitted and noble. The opposite, naturally, was the moments of using the Force for personal purposes. Not for the good of the Galaxy, but for your own benefit.
It is worth noting that the Jedi Order was a classic monastic military order. In our version of a distant galaxy, these were, for example, the orders of the Crusaders or Shaolin monks. My occupation is military, but my motivation is religious. Imagine hundreds, thousands of warriors who are raised and trained for one single purpose: to defend the space entrusted to them. Simply - to fight.
The question arises. How long will such a community last in peacetime? Study the art of war year after year, knowing that your skills may never be useful to you in your life, which means your life was worth nothing? It’s another matter when motivation is taken beyond the boundaries of existence. Yes, I live and improve in skills that it would be better never to put into practice seriously. But the point is not to put them into action, but to serve a higher power (or Force), to maintain this contact. The meaning is not in personal interests, but in a higher purpose.
The Jedi Order could only exist as a spiritual, albeit military, organization. And they really were forbidden everything that leads to the dark side.
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Why is the dark side so bad? Among fans of the Star Wars universe, heroes who use the dark Force are statistically almost more sympathetic than the light Jedi. Discussing the “badness” or “goodness” of this or that is not the purpose of this article. Therefore, let's take it on faith: the Jedi really believed that the dark side of the Force was very bad, and one should stay away from it. This was the only way to maintain world balance and harmony, which was especially important for every Jedi.
Both the code and other Jedi principles were designed to protect against the attraction of the dark side. And the attraction could be unbearable. Starting with small thoughts, with overwhelming anger or a sense of one’s own uniqueness, it led along winding paths to the idea: why not? Why can't I use what I have? Why not draw resources from anger rather than from the desire for peace? What prevents you from extracting information from a prisoner using methods that are slightly more strict than the master would approve? What prohibitions can someone who is so strong have?
So, slowly and barely noticeably, the Jedi began to increasingly rely on his desires and ideas, on flaring emotions, to get bogged down in personal interests, placing the goals of the Order in the background. Shifting the meaning taken outside the framework of being, inside life. Threatening the pillar on which the Order rests.
In fact, relying on one’s desires and experiencing any emotions is very typical for living beings. Only what was natural for an ordinary creature turned out to be a fall for a Jedi. The responsibility assigned back in the days of apprenticeship was significantly higher than the galactic average and required decisive voluntary restrictions.
Therefore, in practice, the Jedi, just in case, tried not to even come close to the line from which the fall began.
That's the whole problem.
Who is using whom?
There is a colorful term in psychology: repression. Sometimes this is a working protective mechanism necessary in everyday life. But sometimes it becomes a time bomb.
When a person (or a member of another intergalactic race) experiences something that is taboo in the circles that matter to him, he can pretend that he is not experiencing anything.
Doesn't feel anger.
Feels no fear.
And he doesn’t even want to fulfill erotic fantasies regarding his beloved. Beloved? What do you mean, Jedi are supposed to love everyone equally. And he, of course, loves this person equally.
Only this is a lie. Emotions, feelings and sensations, suppressed from consciousness by a thick set of principles and prohibitions, are stored in the unconscious, compressed with a tight spring, grow without the knowledge of their owner and one day explode so that they can be seen even beyond the Far Border.
This happened to Anakin Skywalker. His loss of his mother, love for Padmé, becoming a Sith and dying choice of the light side deserve a separate article or a couple of dissertations on psychology. Now it is important to pay attention to this.
Anakin Skywalker would never have become Darth Vader if the Jedi Order had truly followed its principles honestly.
Did the Jedi know that Anakin was afraid of his mother's death? Of course they did. He certainly told his teacher, Obi-Wan, about nightmares where his mother died and he could not save her. Did the Jedi do anything to help Anakin with his pain?
They forbade him to be afraid.
“Control your emotions.” "Fear leads to the dark side."
Were they not afraid themselves? What, if not fear, prevented Obi-Wan from talking to his Padawan in such a way that he did not have to wake up in horror over and over again? Why, if not from fear of this unheard of strong boy, did the great Jedi masters turn a blind eye to what was happening?
“Don’t feel,” Anakin was told. He tried to push the fear so deep that he could not see it. Repression worked according to the classical scheme: experiences repressed by a person became phonic, literally turning out to be the experiences of those around them, and they came to him in nightmares.
Fear gives rise to anger. Anger leads to the dark side.
The more Anakin told himself not to be afraid, the more dangerous he became to himself and those around him. Until, in the end, he turned into a tool in the hands of Darth Sidious and destroyed both the Order and everything that was dear to him.
He thought he was controlling his fear. In fact, his fear controlled him.
But can't the same be said about the entire Order?
