Intimacy with God

I've always admired people who seemed like they knew God intimately.

Which is why this quote stuck out to me out of this very good article (read it, it's good)

"What we're talking about is the Christian life. It's following Jesus. Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

This promise of intimacy is both right and wrong. There is an intimacy with God, but it's like any other intimacy; it's part of the fabric of your life. In marriage you don't feel intimate most of the time. Nor with a friend. Intimacy isn't primarily a mystical emotion. It's a way of life, a life of openness, honesty, a certain transparency"

Do you agree with this quote?  Do you agree that intimacy is not primarily a "mystical emotion" and when we strive for it as a primary indication of our "closeness" to God we may do so at the expense of intimacy as a "way of life" -- being "open, honest, and transparent" with God through the ups and downs of day to day life.

What do you think?