All is Yoga
It has come to me in a very clear fashion that everything one does is Yoga, is part of the journey back to The Beloved, the Self, God. All of our acts, everyone and everything that we encounter, are part of our spiritual path.
There is no other path than that.
This way of looking at things is reassuring to me. It helps to remove the worry that I am getting off track, that I have made a wrong choice. Not that I think this removes any responsibilities. We still have to pay attention and notice what is happening. We still have to do our own work. But that is just it. You do the work that you have before you and that is exactly the work that you should be doing. In the meantime there can be all this doubt, all this wondering if I am on the right path. Just do the work that is in front of you. There is it is, right there.
Many years ago before I moved to California to join a yoga meditation ashram, I read a description of the yoga they taught in a book by Baba Ram Dass, The Only Dance There Is