Both religion and mysticism are like shadows of real Spirituality. You are a Spiritual as well as a physical being. Religion and mysticism are attempts to translate Spirituality into something more understandable to our finite minds when confronted with the Infinite.
The awe and admiration you mention speak to the Spiritual part of your being. You likely ascribe it to emotion, but underneath the emotion is something real.
Just as you cannot find words to describe a beautiful scene in nature that expresses EXACTLY how it affects you, so it is with the Spiritual Dimension. I can't describe the feeling of the first breath of fresh air after oxygen deprivation, but the deprivation is real and so is the air. It is the Breath that's indescribable.
A man's spirit will not rest until he comes to some agreement with his Creator.
A man can never understand his Creator, so he must attempt to understand himself, and in doing that, he finds the Creator.
