“It is the body that is immortal. It is living from moment to moment. As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture.”

— U.G. Krishnamurti

Quoted in The Sage And the Housewife (2005) by Shanta Kelker, Ch. 3

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Indian philosopher 1918–2007

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