Every question I ask is a trick. You will find no truth in me.
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"Why?" is a question always deeper than its answer.
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No lesson is truly learned until it has been purchased with pain.
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• Is it what the teacher teaches or what the student learns?
• What's the difference?
• That is, itself, a question worth considering.
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You can kill me, but you can't make me obey.
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All the answers fall short of the truth.
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Questions are more true than answers: this is the beginning of wisdom.
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The Force is everything. If the Force was only about life, how could it be used to puck up a rock, or a lightsaber, or and X-wing star-fighter?
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What is the difference between a flower and a weed?
The choice of the gardener.
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Freedom is always alarming.
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Winning is not the same as fighting.
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Let pain pass through you unchanged like light through empty space.
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In the story of your life, is this your best ending? Is this your dream?
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Find the power that arises from acting without hope... and also without fear.
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"Out of control" is just code for "I don't want to admit I'm the kind of person who would do such things." It's a lie.
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Everything you tell yourself should be the truth—or as close to it as you can come.
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You can do whatever you want, so long as you maintain your Jedi calm? So long as you can tell yourself you're valuing life? You can kill and kill and kill, so long as you don't lose your temper? Isn't that a little sick?
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You'll never have an answer. But you can be an answer.
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A large part of growing up involves watching everything change, and discovering that all changes are permanent. That nothing ever changes back. That you can't go home again.
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Nothing lasts forever. The only permanence is death.
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You are free to do, or not do, what you will. Do you understand the difference between training and teaching? Between learning to do and learning to be?
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I want nothing from you. I want only for you.
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'Expecting' is distraction. Pay attention to Now.
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You can mend yourself. Like a healed bone, you can become stronger at the break.
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You feel empty. You feel alone. Lonely. Almost frightened, but also strong, yes? The name for what you are feeling, is freedom.
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Each direction is as good as any other. There is nothing useful you can do—nothing within your reach that would make a difference to anyone but yourself. On the other hand, who says you have to be useful?
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Kill one [for food], it's nature, kill them all, is the dark side? Is the line between nature and dark side only one of degree?
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There is nothing that is not a game. A serious game, to be sure: a permanent game. A lethal game. A game so grave that it can be well played only with joyous abandon. Yes, it has never been a game. And is always has. Either way, or both: you had better play to win. There are no rules. The name of the game is, "Who are you?"
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This is the shameful secret of the Jedi: There is no dark side.
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The Force is One. The Force is everything, and everything is the Force. It does not take sides. The Force does not even have sides.
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Light and dark are no more than nomenclature: words that describe how little we understand.
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What you call the dark side is the raw, unrestrained Force itself: you call the dark side what you find when you give yourself over wholly to the Force. To be a Jedi is to control your passion... but Jedi control limits your power. Greatness—true greatness of any kind—requires the surrender of control. Passion that is guided, not walled away. Leave your limits behind.
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If your surrender leads to slaughter, that is not because the Force has darkness in it. It is because you do.
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The only dark side you need fear is the one in your own heart.
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Does the Force use the Jedi or does the Jedi use the Force?
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Everything is easy when you have no doubts.
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The Force is One. It encompasses all opposites. Truth and lies, life and death, light and dark, good and evil. They're all each other, because each thing and everything is the same thing. The Force is One.
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What is real? What is illusion? Where is the line between truth and lie? Between right and wrong? It's a cold and lonely place: the void of not knowing.
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The greatest wound a Jedi can suffer is freedom.
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When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong. Uncertainty sets you free.
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There is only you, and everyone else, and the universe, of which each is a small interlocking component.
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Everything everyone tells you is a lie. The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.
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Trust is always an act of faith.
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The only power any of us have is the be who we are.
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You don't have to know. All you have to do is decide. Choose, and act.
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When you start to become who you are, the first thing you learn is that there is nothing to fear.
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You don't have to be a hero. All you have to do is pretend. Playacting is not only permissible. It is necessary.
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All things are all one thing: pain and joy, loss and reunion, life and death. To love any is to love all, for none can exist without every other. The Universe. The Force. All is one.
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We are all different faces of the same thing. Call it the Universe, or the Force, or Existence: those are only words. They are half truths. Less. They are lies. The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.
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Time vanishes along with fear, and doubt, and pain in that eternal second when you surrender your self-command.
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Letting slip the bonds of control, leaving aside conscious thought, answering only the surge of your passion and joy, you find power undreamed of.
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There are only the dancers, and the dance, The dance is all there is: from whirl of quarks to wheel of galaxies, all is motion. All is dance. All is.
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One can meet the Universe and all its irrational pain—which means meeting oneself—with fear, or with hatred, or with despair. Or one can choose to meet it with love.
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You don't have to know who you are. All you have to do is decide.
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Truth is elusive, and questions are more useful than answers.
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Life is more a matter of choosing than of knowing.
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You need not like someone to love him. Love is nothing more than the recognition that two are one. That all is one.
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This is the most valuable lesson one can teach a fanatic: that fanaticism is self-defeating.
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The greatest moment of a teacher's life is when she is surpassed by her student.