When I pass over from my standpoint to that of another, I go not only from my subjective view of myself to his objective view of me, but also from my objective view of him to his subjective view of himself. ... The relativity of all standpoints can actually have a positive significance underlying its more obvious negative significance. It can point toward what we might call "mystery," meaning by that term not unintelligibility but inexhuastible intelligibility, for the search from person to person involved in the process of passing over from standpoint to standpoint reveals each person as inexhaustible, incapable of being reduced to a single standpoint or to any sum of standpoints. If I keep in mind the relativity of standpoints as I pass over from one standpoint to another, therefore, I effectively hold myself open toward mystery. - John Dunne, A Search for God in Time and Memory.
Needs and heart's desire go together in a labor of love. There is a happiness in a labor of love like the Church of the Poor Devil, although that name, the Poor Devil (o Pobre Diabo), means "the poor wretch" in Portuguese just as it does in English and tells of needs that are unfullfilled. If I enter into this labor of love, reenacting it in thoughts, I am in for some kind of reconstruction myself, going from the complexity of meeting my needs to the simplicity of following my heart's desire. Let me see if I can discover here the link between the human and the spiritual, the thread running through all the needs, the true desire of the human heart. - John Dunne, The Church of the Poor Devil.