About the Jedi Code
Not exactly a review, alright.
Just something I felt after reading the book, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force - Fury...
The Jedi Code
There is no emotion, there is peace.
There is no ignorance, there is knowledge.
There is no passion, there is serenity.
There is no chaos, there is harmony.
There is no death, there is the Force.
Used to think that those lines were a bit old-fashioned. And the fact is that I still do. It's just that I am now beginning to appreciate the Code from a different point of view, considering what happened recently.
It's only when you have absolutely nothing to lose that you can truly open yourself.
As long as you have two different – conflicting – area of interest to protect, at some point you'll be forced to compromise your principles, alter your beliefs, justify your wrong doings, all because the two aspects are incompatible in nature.
In other words, there's no integrity without pure commitment.
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Updated @ Jan 21:
Just read another article, Anakin Must Die, posted by Abel G. Pena, in which the author said:
I want to do the right thing, one says, but not at the expense of myself. Not at the expense of myself! What guarantee do I have that if I pass up this opportunity to seize my destiny -- yes, at the expense of this other -- that such an opportunity will come again? That I will not have betrayed myself forever?
Alas, we may now mourn together. Because, there is no guarantee.
And that, called alternately the annihilation of the self and the faith that hope lives forever, is what it is to be a Jedi.
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A clear, unquestioned objective.
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