If you like ‘The Dark Night of the Soul’ and all that it implies, you should look into reading ‘The Cloud of Unknowing’ by an anonymous author in 1375.   There are more than a few present day English translations that make for a bit more easy reading than the 14th century English in which it was written.  It speaks of the apophatic approach to ‘knowing’, trusting and allowing God.  It is precisely pursuit of the internal mystical relationship with God via the path of allowing and consenting to God being with you through the vehicle of trust.  The Dark Night of the Soul will make more sense after reading this!  I have the olde english version here as a free download, and it can be bought on some of the web bookstores for only a few dollars.  I am re-reading it after many times.

“Now, I have the rest of my life to live with the Cloud of Unknowing, The Cloud of Forgetting, and the Apophatic approach of allowing God to come to me through my own intent and surrender so that he might have an experience of me and the world I live in.”

To answer your question as to what I meant by “come to me through my own intent” is this:

Our intention is our free will in motion.

If I intend to open myself for God to be with me, then I am surrendering to the idea of God being with me, or in other words, I am creating space through my intention to allow God to enter it.

Mostly our intentions take us to any place other than being with God, and we are probably not used to consciously focusing our intentions.

The practice of Centering Prayer as presented by Fr. Thomas Keating uses the phrase: the “intent to consent”.

I hope that helps to answer your question or at least assists you in asking another!