I was just re-reading your reply and I remembered such a magical moment yesterday. I was teaching a class and it happened completely unexpectedly right as I was in the middle of explaining an exercise to everyone.
The partner I was demonstrating on was stood in front of some windows and as it was dusk there was this incredible orange hue of light that was spreading across the room, and this caught my attention, and then in the blink of an eye I was as you describe - where I belong, where everything is perfect and magical. It was particularly interesting because it happened in the class setting and so everybody else was also there in that magical world.
Re-memorating this experience makes the point well - that there is no gradiation between ‘my’ world and that magical world. No matter how diminished, ‘I’ never set foot in the actual world. That is why ‘I’ sacrifice ‘myself’ - so that everybody can live in that magical world, where they already are.