The Importance of Being Present

What you are looking for is a quality of presence and happiness that allows the universe to be just as it is, including your ability and desire and skills to do something to change it. I walk into a room with a fellow who's got advanced aid symptoms. He has an extreme case of Candida down his whole esophagus to his stomach, his mouth. My first reactions are within my psychodynamics. That is, I feel empathy for his predicament and I feel dis-ease around it. And by the end of the second hour when I left, both of us were in ecstasy.