I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love.

In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

The primary declaration of Christianity is not "This do!" but "This happened!

It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.