As soon as there is any story or concept attached to what timelessly is - it IS no longer, since the one telling the story has jumped in as some sort of divided separated actor of the play, bringing a time and space definition to it as well as personalizing it. What is simply is, and there's noone there to experience it as a personal happening. It is spirit experiencing through the senses. An immediate experience of what is, saluted by the whole universe.
A realization or insight is worth nothing if it can't be lived. And it is only lived in the Now, the present moment. Otherwise it immediately becomes a story of the mind who takes credit for a "spiritual experience" or even worse a "spiritual achievement": "This happened to ME." "I managed to reach THAT state."
The noble art of self-inquiry has led me to an approach of radical honesty with myself. In that honesty it becomes more and more clear that one key to stay present is to allow the mind to think whatever it thinks. It is extremely rapid in defining itself as the center, being the doer, taking the credit for having achieved a certain state (which is impossible, but the mind is convinced that's how it happened). The key is to allow those thoughts and see through them instead, not to drop into living as the thoughts, but to stay open and be the living Truth.
It is not easily done with a mind that disguises as bhakti!
There it comes, dressed as the 'spiritual seeker' who is approaching something glorious, still very far away and rare. The longing for IT is creating the greatest distance to it, because it is a 'person' who is longing. It is the identity of "being the seeker" that prevents openness to the Now, which is always there within reach, since it is what we ARE all the time.
All the beautiful memories of earlier experiences or previously lived states in higher energies etc are worth absolutely nothing. They are stories and belong to the past. What's left is merely a model in the psyche of what was, and hardly even that beacuse there is no memory in the Now, so what is stored from those moments of presence?
Living as a conscious timeless being, in oneness and grace... So simple, and yet so tricky...