Beauty

~From Ahsoka Tano

It’s such a beautiful day.The skies are clear, the water is blue, and the suns soft golden light is falling on everything so perfectly, it’s hard to believe we’re in the middle of a war.Sometimes I wonder, ‘what are we fighting for anyway?’.When there are places in the galaxy that are so peaceful, and so beautiful, that are best left alone, why do we just destroy everything?

The ocean is so calming.It reminds me of a time when things were different.When we always had time to just, breathe.Reach out.Take in our surroundings.Enjoy the beauty in the galaxy, and work to preserve it.

It saddens me to think that the only way we might restore that sense of calm to the galaxy is by fighting for it.How ironic such things can be…

Even now, when I’m so at ease, somewhere in the back of my mind, I’m always dwelling on that dark cloud that’s fallen over the galaxy.That shadow in the force that has absorbed nearly everything.But not here, not this place.Here that darkness will never reach, I just know it.There are forces at work here that are too complex and too pure for anyone to understand.

They will protect this beauty for as long as they can.But in the end, it’s up to us to ensure that this light is protected forever.

#savestarwars #savetheplanet #saveourgalaxy

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Photo Credits:http://lucasstarwarssaga.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-peaceful-planet-of-naboo.html—–I don’t know where the original image is from but I found it on this site.

Peace

Shhhh…quiet your mind, and listen

Listen to the wind, blowing softly, rustling the trees, lightly lifting your hair.Feel it, as it touches your face; it’s cool, and calm.

Listen to the people, milling around; chatting, sitting, enjoying the view.Listen to their feet, their boots, as they walk on the gravely ground.

Listen to their hearts.Beating, beating.

Breathe.

Now, listen to your heart.

What do you feel?What do you see?

In this place, this place of balance, of peace, of life.

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Photo Credits: theatlantic.com

Nothing and everything

~From Qui-Gon Jinn

A vast expanse of nothing, and everything, stretches in front of me.

Endlessness…

Some fear the unknown, but it’s quite peaceful to me; oblivion.I find a sense of balance here, That exists between all things.There is a life to the desert that most people are unable to see.

Earth, fire, the wind and the sky…

It’s beautiful, how the universe works.How you can find peace, happiness and beauty in everything; if you just open your eyes and look.

Look beyond and look within, and you’ll find that true happiness begins with you and stretches far beyond you.

It is strange how you learn these things only after death.But as it is with the desert, though you can not see the life, it is there.

Such is the way of things.You are a small speck in the vastness of the universe.So, so, infinitely small; you are nothing, and everything.

#savestarwars

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Photo Credits:Star Wars Expanded (YouTube channel)

Temiri Blagg

My whole life I’ve lived in this lousy, beautiful town.Being pushed around by this moron who owns the stables.Nobody cares how he treats the Fathiers or how he treats us, all those rich and snobbish people care about are their own businesses.The only businesses in the galaxy which can get you that rich; selling weapons to the first order, and the resistance.Fuelling the war that’s been waging throughout the galaxy, forever.The war between the light and the dark.

Over the years, they’ve taken many forms but I know that it all comes down to the same thing.And my place in all this is not here.Not here where I get beaten by a stupid old man every day.Not here where I’m constantly ignored. Not here, where I’m insignificant.I’m meant for something greater, and I deserve it.After all we’ve been through, every child here deserves it.

Everyone keeps telling me what to do, when to do it, how to it; but I just can’t…they don’t know what I need, or what I want…It’s frustrating beyond belief.But someday I’m gonna fly away from this place.Far, far away, and be free…I’m going to be a Jedi.

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Sometimes the world seems against you, the journey may leave a scar; but scars can heal and reveal just where you are. ~Grandma Tala (from ‘Moana’)

Photo Credits:Star Wars The Last Jedi

All is as the force wills it.

I’ve been wondering about the force, what it intends for the galaxy.Sometimes it works in my favour, sometimes it doesn’t; but no matter what, the Jedi would always say “all is as the force wills it”.So what is its will?

I meditated.I wondered.I thought.Thought long and hard.Thought about what the force is.

Then it came to me, when I wasn’t thinking at all…

The force is an energy, it surrounds us and binds us.It is non-biased and everlasting.It takes no sides, favours no one.There is no light or dark, good or evil, simply…balance.

Photo Credits:Star Wars Rebels

Ben

Ah, that little droid, he thought as he sat down to talk to Luke.What was he going to tell the boy?Oh!You know your father was my Padawan and he turned to the dark side in an attempt to save your mother so I cut off his arms and legs and let him burn in lava which caused her to loose the will to live and die right after giving birth to you and and your sister Leia, who is the princess of Alderaan.Yes, she is the girl in the hologram.He had been dreading this day since he’d landed on that dust ball, and having Anakin’s beloved droid around didn’t really help.The pain of loosing him was felt so fresh and he couldn’t even begin to imagine how Ahsoka felt about it.If only he could find her, they could have brought him back, together. “Anaikin was a good friend”,he said,”and a cunning warrior”.He had to choose his words very carefully, only because he couldn’t bare what Luke would think of him if he knew the truth.The young Jedi Ezra had not revealed Obi-Wan’s existence to anybody, but now it was time for him to do that himself.Luke would learn about his family eventually, when he was a trained Jedi.It was his destiny.Senator Organa and the Rebels needed help and he was their only hope.

Sabine Wren

Apparently its not alright to kill people.Or even so much as punch them in the face, because no matter what they’ve done, no matter how horrid they were to you, if you hurt them, everything is your fault. Kannen is a Jedi, all his life he’s been taught about peace and balance and serenity, so he’s peaceful and balanced and serene…for the most part.Even Ezra’s just the same now…but me,I’m a warrior, all I’ve ever known is to fight and fight, until I win, and that usually means my opponent is dead.I guess I could change the way I am, but even then, nothing else is going to change.No matter what I do, I’m still going to be a criminal to the empire and a traitor to Mandalore and a disgrace to my family.So what’s the point?It won’t change anything. Kannen has a lot of faith in people, but he’s too idealistic for my liking.In a Galaxy at war, filled with pain and suffering, he still manages to see the good in people, and I respect that.I just don’t see that.I’m a Mandalorian, and a proud one, and I will never forget our ways, but maybe if I spend enough time with these two crazy Jedi, something about me could change.

Photo credits:Star Wars Rebels

Lesson Three

Luke’s third lesson for Rey was a test.To see if she could open her mind to the force and if she had the will of a true Jedi.He tells her there’s a fire raging on the far side of the island and then goes about his business.Conflict!Pain!Death!she heard, but did not feel.She rushed to save them, without stopping to think.She Raced across the shore at full speed.If Luke wasn’t going to do anything,she would have to be the one to save this sacred island.She arrived at a local party with warm fires crackling merrily in every hut.She was disappointed.Not only in Luke,for his misinformation, but in herself.If she wanted to be a Jedi,she would have to start acting like one…thinking like one.”I shouldn’t be mad at him”,she told herself as she walked back to the temple,”it wasn’t his fault.This was a test, and I failed.”

Lesson One

Rey was training with Luke on Ahch-To and after sensing the Balance and the light side of the force she noticed the dark.It offered her something that she wanted so she yielded and gave herself up to it.She didn’t even try to resist.

He’d seen this raw strength only once before, in Ben Solo.It didn’t scare him enough then, but it did now.

Photo Credits: Star Wars:The Last Jedi