Yoda's teachings from Star Wars distilled into 10 rules for overcoming fear and achieving success. Fear is a path to the dark side. Let go of attachment, cultivate patience, and use inner awareness as your ally.
Fear is the path to the dark side.
You must unlearn what you have learned.
Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing.
For my ally is the Force.
And a powerful ally it is. Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose. Clear your mind must be.
I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience.
Destroy the Sith. We must.
A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense.
If so powerful you are, why leave?
He's the Grand Master of the Jedi Order.
He is the oldest and most powerful Jedi Master.
In 800 years, he's had a hand in training almost every Jedi.
He is Yoda, and here are his top 10 rules for success.
How feel you?
Cold, sir.
Afraid, are you?
No, sir.
See through you? We can.
Be mindful of your feelings.
Your thoughts dwell on your mother.
I miss her.
Afraid to lose her, I think.
What has that got to do with anything?
Everything.
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.
Oh no, we'll never get it out now.
So certain are you? Always with you, what cannot be done.
Hear you nothing that I say?
Master, moving stones around is one thing. This is totally different.
No, no different. Only different in your mind. You must unlearn what you have learned.
All right, I'll give it a try.
No, why not? Do or do not. There is no try.
Use your feelings, you must. Younglings, younglings, a visitor we have.
Hello, I'm sorry to disturb you, Master.
What help can I be? Obi-Wan?
Hmm, I'm looking for a planet described to me by an old friend. I trust him, but the systems don't show in the archive maps.
Hmm, lost a planet Master Obi-Wan has? How embarrassing, how embarrassing. Liam the Shades, gather around the map reader, clear your mind. And find Obi-Wan's wayward planet, we will.
It ought to be here, but it isn't. Gravity is pulling all the stars in the area towards this spot.
Gravity's silhouette remains, but the star and all the planets disappeared.
They have.
How can this be? A thought? Anyone, Master?
Because someone erased it from the archive memory.
Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is. The Padawan is right. Go to the center of gravity's pull. And find your planet you will.
I can't.
It's too big.
Size matters not.
Look at me.
Judge me by my size, do you?
Hm? Hm.
And where you should not. For my ally is the Force.
And a powerful ally it is. Life creates it. Makes it grow.
Its energy surrounds us. Binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you.
Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere. Yes, even between the land and the ship.
You want the impossible.
I don't— I don't believe it. Mac?
It's why you fail.
Premonitions? Premonitions?
Hmm.
These visions you have, they're of pain, suffering, death.
Yourself you speak of, or someone you know?
Someone.
Close to you?
Yes.
Careful you must be when sensing the future, Anakin.
The fear of loss is a path to the dark side.
I won't let these visions come true, Master Yoda.
Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them, do not. Miss them, do not. Attachment leads to jealousy.
The shadow of greed, that is.
What must I do, Master Yoda?
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.
I have successfully made contact with the Prime Minister of Kamino. They are using a bounty hunter named Jango Fett to create a clone army. I have a strong feeling that this bounty hunter is the assassin we're looking for.
Do you think these cloners are involved in the plot to assassinate Senator Amidala?
No, Master, there appears to be no motive.
Do not assume anything, Obi-Wan. Clear your mind must be if you are to discover the real villains behind this plot.
Why wish you become Jedi?
Mostly because of my father, I guess.
Ah, father? How for Jedi was he? Powerful Jedi.
Oh, come on. How could you know my father? You don't even know who I am. No, I don't even know what I'm doing here. We're wasting our time.
I cannot teach him. The boy has no patience.
He will learn patience.
Much anger in him. Like his father.
Was I any different when you taught me?
He is not ready. Yoda, I am ready.
Ben, I can be a Jedi. Ben, tell him I'm ready.
Ready, are you? What knows you're ready? For 800 years have I trained Jedi.
My own council will I keep on who is to be trained.
Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life as he looked away to the future, to the horizon, never his mind on where he was.
Hm?
What he was doing?
Adventure? Excitement?
A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless.
So was I, if you remember.
He is too old. Yes, too old to begin the training.
But I've learned so much.
He'll finish what he begins.
I won't fail you.
I'm not afraid. You will be.
You will be.
Destroy the Sith. We must.
Send me to kill the Emperor. I will not kill Anakin.
To fight this Lord Sidious, strong enough you are not.
He is like my brother. I cannot do it.
Twisted by the dark side, young Skywalker has become. The boy you trained, gone he is. Consumed By Darth Vader.
I do not know where the Emperor has sent him. I don't know where to look.
Use your feelings, Obi-Wan, and find him you will.
Jedi strength flows from the Force, but beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression, the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, perfect to join you in a fight. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.
Vader, is the dark side stronger?
No, no. But the easier, more seductive.
But how am I to know the good side from the bad?
You will know when you are calm, at peace. Passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense. Never attack.
I hear a new apprentice you have, Emperor. Or should I call you Darth Sidious?
Master Yoda, you survived.
Surprised?
Your arrogance blinds you, Master Yoda. Now you will experience the full power of the dark side. I have waited a long time for this moment, my little green friend. At last, the Jedi are no more.
Not if anything to say about it, I have. At an end your rule is, and not short enough it was. You're so powerful. You are. Why leave?
You will not stop me. Darth Vader will become more powerful than either of us.
Faith in your new apprentice misplaced, maybe, as is your faith in the dark side of the Force.
Master Yoda.
Count Dooku.
You have interfered with our affairs for the last time.
Powerful you have become, Dooku. The dark side I sense in you.
I've become more powerful than any Jedi, even you.
Much to learn you still have.
It is obvious that this contest cannot be decided by our knowledge of the Force, but by our skills with a lightsaber.
Well, you have, my old Padawan.
This is just the beginning.
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