I don't know if i've written on this before but allow me to rewrite it...as I have been sitting in reverie at this here coffee shop.
Anyone who wants to know the human psyche will learn next to nothing from psychology. He would be better advised to put away his scholar's gown, bid farewell to his study, and wander with human heart through the world. There, in the horrors of prisons, lunatic asylums and hospitals, in drab suburban pubs, in brothels and gambling-hells, in the salons of the elegant, the Stock Exchanges, Socialist meetings, churches, revivalist gatherings and ecstatic sects, through love and hate, through the experience of passion in every form in hos own body, he would reap richer stores of knowledge than text-books a foot thick could give him, and he will know how to doctor the sick with real knowledge of the human soul.
Baristas, bartenders and barbers are the true perveyors of the world's mind. They see us day in and day out in early morning wake ups...through the darkest nights of drinking splurges and through our ritual of haircuts...how graciously unseen they are...they hold the keys to our world of psychology...just ask.
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