Prologue
First comes the day, then comes the night
After the darkness shines through the light
The difference they say is only made right
By resolving of Grey through refined Jedi sight.
Journal of Whills, 7:477
The Force Awakens
There is no light without dark
Through passion I gain focus
Through knowledge I gain power
Through serenity I gain strength
Through victory I gain harmony
There is only the force.
Grey Jedi Code
The dark is generous.
It's first gift is concealment: our true faces lie in the dark beneath our skins, our true hearts remain shadowed deeper still. But the greatest concealment lies not in protecting our secret truths, but in hiding from us the truths of others.
The dark protects us from what we dare not know. It's second gift is comforting illusion: the ease of gentle dreams in night's embrace, the beauty that imagination brings to what would repel in day's harsh light. But the greatest of it's comforts is the illusion that the dark is temporary: that every night brings a new day. Because it is the day that is temporary. Day is the illusion.
It's third gift is the light itself: as days are defined by the nights that divide them, as stars are defined by the infinite black through which they wheel, the dark embraces the light, and brings it forth from the centre of it's own self.
With each victory of the light, it is the dark that wins.
The dark is generous, and it is patient and it always wins- but in the heart of its strength lies weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back.
Love is more than a candle.
Love can ignite the stars.
Revenge of the Sith