But adoring God is not worship to you.
No, adoration is an integral part of worship which differentiates worship from veneration. We adore God, and only God. But we also offer God the bloodless and rational sacrifice of the Eucharist in memory of Christ’s passion on the Cross, which consists of, to quote the Divine Liturgy, “a mercy of peace, a sacrifice of praise” and the bread and wine which are offered to God for consecration by the Holy Spirit, who causes them to become the actual Body and Blood of our Lord, offered to us. This is why the priest intones in the Eucharist “Thine Own of Thine Own, We Offer Unto Thee, On Behalf of All and For All,” because this recapitulation of the one atoning sacrifice of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ on the Cross, where He offered Himself a ransom for our sins, and thus defeated the devil and despoiled Hades, has replaced the animal sacrifices in the Temple of Judaism, as those sacrfices were of a prophetic nature, preparing us to understand the concept of Sacrifice so we could appreciate what God has done for us, and in turn how to make a proper remembrance of that sacrifice in our worship of God.
Thus adoration, while inseparable from worship, and unique to worship, does not constitute worship in its entirety, for the sacrifice of the Eucharist and the other sacraments, or sacred mysteries as we prefer to call them in the Orthodox Church, are also integral parts of worship of God. In addition, worship should also extend into aspects of our every day life, as everything we do should be consecrated to God. This is particularly the case in Hesychasm, which is the practice of continuous prayer by learning to say the Jesus Prayer “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy on Me, A Sinner” or a variation thereof, such as “Lord Have Mercy”, at all times, thus fulfilling the instruction of God to pray without ceasing.
But a prayer is by itself a petition, and thus we seek the intercession of the saints by asking them to pray with us, but we do not worship but venerate the saints in same manner in which we venerate our beloved family and friends.