Some might view meditation and yoga, and meditation in particular, as ways to avoid or escape from life and enter some “ideal” fairy-like world or fantasy.
I see it quite the opposite.
Meditation and yoga help me live life more fully and deeply.
It’s like plugging into the main circuit of the life energy or force.
You realize you are abuzz with the current of life!
You feel what it is like to say “I am alive!”
The Every Day Yogi 