Reddit reviews The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks (Penguin Classics)
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This is what I trace christian mysticism back to for it's earliest roots,... the Desert Fathers. http://www.amazon.com/Desert-Fathers-Sayings-Christian-Classics-ebook/dp/B002RI9EWI/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1406718856&sr=1-2&keywords=Sayings+of+the+Desert+Fathers
this book is amazing, a great intro.
after that period,.. you start moving into medieval western saints, John of the Cross, Catherine of Siena etc. But there are some medieval eastern saints worth reading too