"Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try."

1. A calm mind can be achieved through meditation and contemplation:
   • Yoda: "Concentrate, feel the Force flow. Yes, good, calm, yes." –Episode V
   • Yoda: You will know. When you are calm, at peace, passive. -Episode V
   • Yoda: "Control, control. You must learn control." -Episode V
2. Living in the present: not having stress about the future or the past. Focusing on today:
   • Qui-Gon: "Keep your concentration here and now where it belongs."
   • Obi-Wan: "Master Yoda says I should be mindful of the future."
   • Qui-Gon: "But not at the expense of the moment." -Episode I
   • Qui-Gon: "Concentrate on the moment." -Episode I
3. Feeling the Living Force flowing around you. Being spiritually aware of the Force:
   • Yoda: "You must feel the Force around you." –Episode V
   • Obi-Wan: "Be mindful of the Living Force my young Padawan."-Episode I
   • Obi-Wan: "A Jedi can feel the Force flowing through him." –Episode IV
   • Yoda: "Reach out. Sense the Force around you." -Episode II
4. Using and trusting your feelings and intuition:
   • Obi-Wan: "Stretch out with your feelings." –Episode IV
   • Obi-Wan: "Trust your feelings, Luke." -Episode IV.
   • Shmi: "What does your heart tell you?" –Episode I
   • Qui-Gon: "Feel, don't think. Use your instincts." –Episode I
   • Yoda: "Use your feelings, you must." -Episode II
   • Yoda: "Use your feeling, Obi-Wan, and find him you will." -Episode III
5. Being mindful of your thoughts. Keeping your thoughts positive:
   • Obi-Wan: "Anakin, you're focusing on the negative again. Be mindful of your thoughts." –Episode II
   • Qui-Gon: "Don't center on your anxiety, Obi-Wan." –Episode I
   • Obi-Wan: "Be mindful of your thoughts Anakin. They'll betray you." –Episode II
   • Mace Windu: "Be mindful of your feelings." -Episode I
   • Qui-Gon: "Remember: Your focus determines your reality." -Episode I
6. Living the Jedi virtues: peace, patience, compassion, justice, and honor:
   "Attachment is forbidden. Possession is forbidden. Compassion, which I would define as unconditional love, is essential to a Jedi’s life. So you might say, that we are encouraged to love."
   • Obi-Wan: "For over a thousand generations the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic." –Episode IV
   • Obi-Wan: "Be patient Luke." -Episode IV Obi-Wan: "He will learn patience." –Episode V
   • Qui-Gon: "We shall have patience." -Episode I
   • Yoda: "A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind."–Episode V
   • Anakin: "Compassion - is central to a Jedi's life." –Episode II
   • Mace Windu: "The Jedi are keepers of the peace." -Episode II
7. Protecting others if possible:
   • Yoda: "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack." –Episode V
   • Yoda: "Around the remaining Jedi, a perimeter you will make." –Episode II
   • Qui-Gon: "Your Highness, it is our pleasure to continue to serve and protect you." –Episode I
   • Qui-Gon: "I cannot fight a war for you, Your Highness, only protect you." –Episode I
8. Jedi are aware of, and avoid the 4 vices that lead to the dark side; Fear, Anger, Aggression, and Hate:
   • Yoda: "Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they." -Episode V
   • Obi-Wan: "Luke, don't give in to hate. That leads to the dark side." -Episode V
   • Yoda: "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to suffering." -Episode I
   • Yoda: “The fear of loss is a path to the dark side.” -Episode III
9. Jedi stay physically fit in order to accomplish their mission in life:
   • Yoda: "Run! Yes. A Jedi's strength flows from the Force."(Yoda giving Luke physical training)-Episode V
   • Obi-Wan: "Run, Luke. Run!" -Episode IV
10. Trusting in the will of the Force and accepting the fact that nothing happens by accident.
    The Force has a plan for every soul in the Universe and its called ‘Destiny’; this plan is in the soul's best interest:
    • Qui-Gon: "Finding him was the will of the Force...I have no doubt of that." -Episode I
    • Qui-Gon: "Nothing happens by accident." -Episode I
    • Obi-Wan: "In my experience, there's no such thing as luck." –Episode IV
11. Jedi work on 'letting go' of attachments and train themselves on this.
    • Yoda: "Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is." -Episode III
    • Yoda: "Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose." -Episode III
12. Jedi believe that the soul survives death, and Jedi do not mourn those who pass:
    • Yoda: "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." -Episode III
    • Yoda: "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter." -Episode V
    • Yoda: "One who has returned from the netherworld of the Force to train me, your old Master, Qui-Gon Jinn." -Episode III
    • Yoda: "Twilight is upon me and soon night must fall. That is the way of things...the way of the Force." -Episode VI