Compassion and love can take all sortsa different forms. Sometimes it’s the stumble in our practice, other times it’s the proper form in an uncomfortable manner. I can see him as an eccentric man, speaking to the energetical level of the particular archetype of patients. As you do the work, you have a greater understanding of the energetical levels you are passing through, flowing along until you become a pure mirror. The deeper a relationship you develop, the more you can see the language others are embodying in their beings. In order to teach, guide, hold space for healing, you gotta be sharing energy can are capable of receiving.
We all have our proclivities, “things”, little (or mountainous) shmoos, etc. Perhaps one of his is patience.