the space between

i cannot get these words out of my mind. while i hear it in my head the way dave matthews sings it, my reflection on the words is completely different.

while doing yoga this morning, i realized that so much of life is focused on the self created importance of things, whether work, time, or each individual yoga pose. we tell ourselves the most important thing in life is work, making money, buying a house, having great friends, or even within our personal time and space, like yoga, working so hard to get the pose perfect. we spend our time chasing these things from when the alarm goes off to when the sun goes down and then do it again. we fill our spaces with a bunch of non-life giving activities. we miss acknowledging the space between these achievements. yoga is not about the perfection of the pose, but the action of getting into the pose and becoming it. work is a means to an end, that for most is essential, but what about the time away from work? or the time getting to and from work? or what about acknowledging that we can enter into our work, letting our work become the pose, the activity of the work, and not the outcome of our work. we must understand the space between finishing the project, the movement between the pose, the moments between stop signs, the ticks between 1 and 2 minutes on the clock, the movement of shadows between the sun and moon, the space between.