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Words Of Wisdom From Jedi Master Yoda (with photo of original Yoda)
posted Thursday, 30 June 2005
Words Of Wisdom From Master Yoda
- Famed Jedi Master of the Star Wars Universe
The Original Yoda.
This photo was taken in the Dagobah system,
a long, long, time ago . . .
"Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
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"Do or do not... there is no try."
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"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 jealously. The shadow of greed, that is."
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"Yes, a Jedi's 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, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice."
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"You will find only what you bring in."
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"Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well 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 and 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."
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"[Luke:] I can’t believe it. [Yoda:] That is why you fail."
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"You must unlearn what you have learned." "Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will..."
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"You will know (the good from the bad) when you are calm, at peace. Passive." A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
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"A Jedi's strength flows from the Force."
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"A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind."
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"Always in motion is the future."
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"And well you should not. For my ally in the Force. And a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. It's energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we...(Yoda pinches Luke's shoulder)...not this crude matter. (a sweeping gesture) You must feel the Force around you. (gesturing) Here, between you...me...the tree...the rock...everywhere! Yes, even between this land and that ship!"
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"Concentrate...feel the Force flow. Yes. Good. Calm, yes. Through the Force, things you will see. Other places. The future...the past. Old friends long gone."
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"Soon will I rest, yes, forever sleep. Earned it I have. Twilight is upon me, soon night must fall."
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"Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless."
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"Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware. Anger, fear, aggression. The dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Luke... Luke... do not... do not underestimate the powers of the Emperor or suffer your father's fate you will. Luke, when gone am I... the last of the Jedi will you be. Luke, the Force runs strong in your family. Pass on what you have learned, Luke. There is... another... Sky... walker."
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"Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you."
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"Ohhh. Great warrior. Wars not make one great."
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"The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is."
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"Only the Dark Lord of the Sith knows of our weakness. If informed the senate is, multiply our adversaries will."
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"Feel the force!"
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"May the force be with you."
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Biography of Master Yoda
Yoda is a Jedi Master who is shrouded in mystery. While standing 0.66 meters tall, Yoda proves that bigger isn't better. While 900 years old, Yoda can still force lift a speeder out of a swamp.
Yoda's species and home planet are a mystery. He first appears in Episode 1 as a permanent member of the Jedi High Council. Yoda is against training Anakin. While the Jedi High Council votes with Yoda nearly every time, the vote is to train the boy.
Yoda started teaching young Jedi when he was in his 700s on the Jedi training ship Chu'unthor. When the ship crashed on the planet Dathomir, none of the Jedi could free it. Two of Yoda's pupils were the king Empatojayos Brand, and Qu Rahn.
Once, Yoda stopped a group of evil Jedi from the planet Bpfassh. One Jedi got to Dagobah. The Jedi was killed by Yoda, and his essence was absorbed into a tree, forming a dark side nexus. Yoda might have picked Dagobah to hide on because his good and the trees evil would block Yoda from Palpatines senses. To this day only two people ever found out Yoda's hiding place. Luke Skywalker and Major Arhul Hextrophon The latter was sworn to secracy, and never told a sole.
Yoda, aside from his Duties on the Jedi Council, would train Jedi before they paired up their masters. During the Galactic Civil War, Yoda hid on Dagobah. He waited for a new hope to come to him. Finally Luke crashed into his swamp. Yoda tested Luke's patience, and then reluctantly agreed to train him. Luke left with out con pleating his training. Later, Luke returned. Yoda said he was a Jedi as soon as he defeated Darth Vader. Luke learned that Leia was his sister, and that Darth Vader was his father. Then Yoda died. At the end of Episode VI, Yoda is seen as a spirit along side Anakin and Obi Wan.
"Wars Not Make One Great!"
Another Version Of the Story of Jedi Master Yoda
Yoda was correct (of course) in saying that "Wars Not Make One Great" for he in all ways was great himself but was never in any great war. Yoda was and is one of the greatest Jedi Masters that ever lived, if not the best. Had he not used his intelligence to stay in hiding on Dagobah to protect the fate of Anakin's children during Palpatine's purge he might have been defeated, and the fate of the galaxy would have been doomed. Though little history is known of the great being, here is what is known:
For more than eight hundred years, the diminutive creature known as Yoda trained only the most serious and committed students in the ways of the force. In the beginning (before he joined the Jedi council), Yoda spent most of his life time aboard the Ch'unthor, a spaceship dedicated to the training of Jedi Apprentices. Yoda's origins are steeped in mystery. His species is unknown, but he was green skinned, with large, brown bulbous eyes, white hair, and long ears. Although he walked on two feet, they were reptilian tridactyl feet. His hands like-wise were claws. And by the time Luke Skywalker met the Jedi Master, Yoda was nine hundred years old, walking with the aid of a gimer stick.
Yoda built his home of mud, sticks, stones, and other natural materials from Dagobah. The windows were made from transparent gems. Yoda lived near a lagoon so he listens to the lulling sound of rain falling on water. He ate plants, fruits, and fungi, subsisting on the things nature offered.
Before the Jedi Knights were ordered purged from the galaxy by the Emperor, Yoda was one of the 12 members of the august and powerful Jedi Council on Coruscant. He was with fellow members (such as Ki-Adi-Mundi and Plo Koon) when they watched as a young Anakin Skywalker faced probing questions from another senior Jedi, Mace Windu, the beginning of a dangerous future for the boy destined to be a Dark Lord of the Sith.
Though Yoda never trained Anakin himself, one of his students, the young and reckless Obi-Wan Kenobi, did. Kenobi, his final student before the coming of Luke Skywalker (decades later), was one of the last Jedi to survive under Palpatine's rule in seclusion on the desert planet of Tatooine.
Yoda taught his students that affinity with nature enhanced an affinity with the Force. He gave them endurance tests, had them run marathons, jump wide lagoons, fight seeker balls with their lightsabers, balance in seemingly impossible ways, meditating for long periods, and levitate objects. Yoda made his students unlearn that which their upbringings, and their own eyes and ears, had taught them.
"A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge. Never for attack." Lessons such as these made training easier; they also became good advice to pass on to future Jedi.
When Palpatine ordered the Jedi Knights purged from the Galaxy, Yoda went deeper into hiding on Dagobah. Using the Force and the planet's natural defenses, Yoda was able to discourage visitors, even as his students and his students' students were slaughtered by Darth Vader and Palpatine's men. Since Vader had been trained solely by Kenobi, he seemed not to know of Yoda's existence, and Palpatine either forgot about Yoda or thought he had already died. Either way, Yoda escaped the purge.
Yoda kept a Force watch on Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa as their destinies took shape. Obi-Wan wanted to tell Luke about his father earlier in Skywalker's teen years, but Yoda told him to wait. But after Kenobi's temporal death, Yoda knew the training of his last Jedi student must commence soon.
On Hoth, an injured Luke Skywalker was visited by the life force of Obi-Wan Kenobi. Ben told him to go to the Dagobah system to learn from Yoda, "the Jedi Master who instructed me." So when the rebels evacuated the ice planet, Luke flew his X-Wing to the boggy planet. It crashed into the swamps, leaving Luke and R2-D2 only a few supplies to survive off of.
Yoda approached the duo, offering help, but not revealing who he was. When luke admitted he was looking for a great warrior, Yoda chuckled, telling him "wars not make one great," then offered to take them to go see Yoda.
Back at the cramped hut, Yoda tried to be hospitable, giving Luke some rootleaf stew, but Luke was impatient. Frustrated, Yoda complained that Luke was unteachable and full of anger and recklessness. "Was I any different when you taught me?" the nearby spirit of Ben Kenobi asked. Then Luke realized he was in the presence of Yoda, and promised that he would do whatever it took to become a Jedi.
Yoda commenced training Luke immediately, lecturing him about the Force while Luke performed rigorous physical and psychological exercises. He especially warned Luke against the path of anger, the lure of the dark side. He tested Luke by allowing him to go into a tree that was filled with dark-side energy. There, Luke dueled with an apparition that resembled Darth Vader, until the helmet cracked and Luke saw his own face. The young Jedi has learned a valuable lesson about the dark side possibilities that lay in his future.
Luke learned two other valuable lessons. Once, when Yoda had him practice levitation, Skywalker was distracted when his X-wing sank in the bog, and he gave into despair. Yoda ordered him to use the same levitation powers to raise his ship. Luke said he'd try, but was cut off curtly by Yoda "No! Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try!"
Lacking belief in himself or his powers, Luke was unable to raise his ship, complaining that it was too big. "Size matters not," Yoda told him, reminding him that the force flows through everything...through Luke, through the bog, and through his ship. Then Yoda concentrated and grandly raised the X-wing out of the marsh and onto dry land. "I don't believe it," his astonished student said.
"That is why you fail, Yoda told him.
Torn between this knowledge and the visions of his friends in danger, Luke decided to leave Dagobah. He promised to return to complete his training, and took off in his X-wing. After Luke left, Yoda and Ben discussed the future of the Jedi, with Yoda reminding Ben that there was "another" hope. He was referring to Leia.
Luke was not lost to the dark side, and the following year he returned to Dagobah, as he had sworn to do. But he found that Yoda was dying. Yet the diminutive Jedi Master joked that Luke would not look nearly so good at nine hundred years old.
Then Yoda offered his final advice. He once again warned Luke to beware the dark side, even though a confrontation with Darth Vader was a necessity. Reminding Luke that he was now the last of the Jedi, Yoda's final words were to reveal that there was another Skywalker. Then Yoda breathed his last breath and disappeared, becoming one with the Force.
When Luke and the Alliance were victorious in the Battle of Endor, a celebration was held. There, for a few moments, Luke saw Obi-wan Kenobi, Yoda, and Anakin Skywalker, all smiling to him. Kenobi and Yoda's pupil-Skywalker's son was, now and forever, a Jedi.
George Lucas and Frank Oz, Bringing Yoda To Life.
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