can self knowledge prevent chaos in relationships?

Is there conflict in your family? Read what Krishnamurti, an Eastern teacher who has addressed the United Nations on the topic of conflict, has to say.

" The problems of the world are so colossal, so very complex, that to understand and so to resolve them one must approach them in a very simple and direct manner; and simplicity, directness, do not depend on outward circumstances nor on our particular prejudices and moods. The solution is not to be found through conferences, blueprints or through the substitution of new leaders for old, ond so on. The solution lies in the creator of the problem, in the creator of the mischief, of the hate and of the enormous misunderstanding that exists between human beings. The creator of this mischief, the creator of these problems, is the individual, you and I, not the world as we think of it. The world, is your relationship with another. The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other."

Is there a difference between conflict at the level of the world stage and between two people in a family? Interested? Read more from Krishnamurti from this quote in The Penquin Knishnamurti Reader, pg. 20. He has written dozens of books and is well documented on the Internet.