Originally Posted by
warty goblin
The tricky part, one which the films do not explain particularly well, is that the Jedi are not opposed to emotions. What the Jedi philosophy delivers is not emotionlessness, but emotional liberation. You can, as a Jedi, search your feelings, because you correctly perceive and recognize them. Anakin, when he falls, cannot search his feelings because he has no space between himself and his emotion. He's a toddler having a tantrum, the only thing that exists is that he isn't getting a cookie.