(1) What is love of G-d? It is the longing of the soul - and its turning, on its own, to the Creator, so that it can cleave to His supernal light. For the soul is of an essence which is pure and spiritual, it tends towards spiritual things similar to itself. By nature, it removes itself from what is opposite to its nature, namely the coarse physical bodies...

(6) But when the light of the understanding penetrates to the soul, and it will reveal to her the disgrace of having turned to the body in love, and having been drawn after it in her thoughts, along with ignoring what will bring her salvation in both worlds - she will desist from this, and leave all of its worldly interests to the gracious Creator, and will turn in her thoughts to seek ways of her salvation from the great trap she is ensnared in, and by which she had been so greatly tempted. Then she will separate from the secular world and all of its pleasures, and will despise the body and its lusts.