Mysticism is the art of union with Reality. The mystic is a person who has attained that union in greater or less degree; or who aims at and believes… - Evelyn Underhill

For years your treasure has been in the Stock Exchange, or the House of Commons, or the Salon, or the reviews that "really count" (if they still exist), or the drawing-rooms of Mayfair; and thither your heart perpetually tends to stray. Habit has you in its chains. You are not free.

The mystics aim (Union with Reality) is not the suppression of life but it's intensification,

Contemplation does not mean abject surrender to every "mystical" impression that comes in. It is no sentimental aestheticism or emotional piety to which you are being invited: nor shall the transcending of reason ever be achieved by way of spiritual silliness.