Master and Apprentice (Star Wars)

by Claudia Gray

Even good people can make terrible mistakes. But I believe they should be helped to understand and account for those mistakes,

“People are more than their worst act,” Obi-Wan recited. It was something Qui-Gon had said to him many times, which at last seemed to be sinking in. “At least, most people. And they are also more than the worst thing ever done to them.”

“They want even more. It’s not enough for Czerka that they already own millions upon millions of sentient beings, and the children they’ll have, and the children those children will have. Czerka still wants more. Sometimes I think they want to own everyone in the galaxy.”

Qui-Gon saved it. He went downstairs wondering when—or if—his old friend would again be guided by his principles rather than his shame.

There was no Jedi so wise that he could not be undone by his own assumptions.

Knowing the future meant surrendering to fate. Surrendering to the ebb and flow of life. Only through that surrender could the Force be truly known.