“A mask hides a face.

Layers hide a soul.

What you see is only the outer fog —

the first veil, the first illusion.

Behind it, another shape waits,

and behind that, another truth.

I am not what I seem,

and I never reveal what I am.

The Jedi don’t use it in ways that are necessarily harmful. They usually use it in ways that are more or less protective of other people.

The Sith or dark side users on the hand are the ones using it to break minds or making people kill themselves.