
You are the cosmos Fundamentals of Human Beings A Powerful Speech by Alan Watts
Alan Watts Lectures
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You Can't Be Saved Alone Because You're Not Alone
When you get to the state of Nirvana there are wells up from within you, what the Buddhist call karuna or compassion. And so, this tremendous sense of solidarity with all other beings arises. So that he who reaches Nirvana, doesn't as it were withdraw into a sort of isolated piece, but as always coming back into the world in compassion for everyone else. You can't be saved alone because you're not alone. You are the whole cosmos.
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