Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Marriage
Source: Contributions to Analytical Psychology (1928), p. 193
“Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
“Without conflict there is no plot, without hope there is no story”
“There’s no such thing as a theatrical troupe without conflicts.”
Source: Doomsday Morning (1957), Chapter 11 (p. 87)
“A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.”
Source: The Analects, Other chapters
On Allah (God), as quoted in Doctrine of Sufis (1977) by Abû Bakr al- Kalâbâdî, as translated by A. J. Arberry, Ch. 5 p. 16
'Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Bulletin 3 (1969), and Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Bulletin 4, (1969)
1960s
Context: Can't you fall in love and not have a possessive relationship? I love someone and she loves me and we get married — that is all perfectly straightforward and simple, in that there is no conflict at all. (When I say we get married I might just as well say we decide to live together — don't let's get caught up in words.) Can't one have that without the other, without the tail as it were, necessarily following? Can't two people be in love and both be so intelligent and so sensitive that there is freedom and absence of a centre that makes for conflict? Conflict is not in the feeling of being in love. The feeling of being in love is utterly without conflict. There is no loss of energy in being in love. The loss of energy is in the tail, in everything that follows — jealousy, possessiveness, suspicion, doubt, the fear of losing that love, the constant demand for reassurance and security. Surely it must be possible to function in a sexual relationship with someone you love without the nightmare which usually follows. Of course it is.
Source: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VI What Was Found
