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Jungle

A jungle is a symbol of the depths of the human heart. As with our deepest emotions, motivations, and desires, the jungle is impenetrable and difficult to understand.

Similarly it is difficult to understand consciousness.

Taking a Beautiful Line from Rumi: Beyond the Boundaries of the Intellect
The popularity of the mystic Sufi poet Rumi is based on his love affair with God, expressed in such ecstatic terms that he makes the spiritual journey seem deeply romantic. But Rumi also reported about how his state of consciousness felt, which gives valuable clues about higher consciousness itself.

Manifestation can only be satisfying and truly effective when it arises out of the Being state of consciousness.

On the one hand, your life purpose unfolds through the activities that you engage in on what I call “the horizontal dimension”—or the dimension of doing. Many teachings on manifestation focus almost exclusively on this dimension, suggesting that if you get what you want, you will be happy. But that’s a fallacy; everybody eventually finds if they only operate on the horizontal dimension they may get what they want, but it doesn’t ultimately satisfy them.

There is another dimension that I call “the vertical dimension,” or the dimension of Being, which is equally important to be aware of when we talk about manifestation. The mastery of life is to have them both in your life. It the dance between being and doing—not as separate things, but acting together—being and doing as one.