Of being that is. How does an ordinary human being, a monkey with car keys, commune with the divine order of the universe? How does an ordinary human being achieve the maximum state of cosmic consciousness where you are open to the universe?
Get tickets for a day game at Fenway or Wrigley, hot dog and beer, and just take it all in.
There are a few rules to life that you must remember to achieve true happiness.
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Popularity is everything. Do whatever it takes to be loved by everyone.
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You can never have enough money. Accumulate, accumulate, accumulate!
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People like to be told how to live their lives. They want a sense of direction. That’s where you come in.
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Children won’t learn to compete unless they are challenged. When playing games with kids, win at all costs.
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Forward everything that shows up in your inbox. It’s a form of generosity.
LSD?
That’s it! Become a Mormon!
According to Dragonball Z, what you need to do is to grunt and groan like you’re trying to pass a really gnarly log, all while holding a heroic pose and flexing all your muscles. When you start getting balls of energy to form around your fists, you have reached your maximum ki.
But, there is always more ki. You just need to grunt and groan louder while dictating a monologue about how you’ve bettered yourself somehow in the last week, in your head.
I love this answer. I would say the same thing about catching a small-club jazz, rock or blues combo when they are just on…
**astro **- I dig your threads - especially the ones based on weirdness pulled from the news - but where are you going with this? Just going for the Funny?
Actually, a hot dog sounds like a good idea. Make me one with everything.
OK, serious answer: A lot of people think that the key is to live in the now as much as possible and to accept everything exactly the way it is. I tend to agree with them.
But if that doesn’t work, then pass the mustard.
Look at this
while thinking that there is probably some shmoe out in one of those galaxies asking the very same question on an electronic message board. While some other shmoe links to a similar image on that message board telling them to think that there is probably some shmoe out in one of those galaxies asking the very same question on an electronic messabe board. While some other shmoe links…
If that doesn’t work then get some alcohol in you and study this website.
I think you’ve been watching too much Oprah.
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Step 1: Give Linty Fresh all your money and worldly possessions.
Step 2: Move into Linty Fresh’s house and show your commitment to achieving enlightenment by cleaning it and washing Linty’s socks and mowing his lawn and doing the dishes. Linty will repay your devotion by personally preparing your microwaved popcorn and throwing it into your room via a trap door to the basement.
Step 3: Partake of the maximum state. And by maximum state, I mean Kool-Aid.
I think you mean:
Step 3: Profit!
Come on, someone had to do it.
Yeah, yeah, everyone’s a South Park fan! Didn’t see that coming. 
Drink it in my friend.
But what if the now sucks?
Wouldn’t you have more “cosmic consciousness” by being conscious of the past, present, and future than just by being conscious of the present?
I keep thinking back to a quote by Kafka that ran something like “Not self-realization but self-immolation.” In other words, losing yourself in your craft once you find it to the point where it doesn’t even occur to you to ask whether you’re happy.
I imagine that finding that craft could be considered the journey you take to maximum state.
This. Accept the way things are. Live your life such that you are steering things in the desired, potentially attainable direction. Easier said than done, but when it’s good, it’s good.
I believe it is possible to eventually achieve that state of mind through meditation. I highly recommend reading The Three Pillars of Zen as an introduction to what that kind of route entails.
Science.