insofar as God loves himself, he loves men, and consequently that God's love of men and the Mind's intellectual Love of God are one and the same - Benedictus de Spinoza

The intellectual love of the mind towards God is that very love of God whereby God loves himself

Can any one doubt that if the noblest saint among the Buddhists, the best Mahometan, the highest Stoic of Athens, the purest and wisest Christian, — Buddha and Menu in India, Confucius in China, Spinoza in Holland, could somewhere meet and converse, — they would all find themselves of one religion, — would find themselves denounced by their own sects, and sustained by these believed adversaries of their sects.

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate human actions, but to understand them.

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.