zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

"We're living in topsy-turvy times, and i think that what causes the topsy-turvy feeling is inadequacy of old thought to deal with new experiences. I've heard it said that the only real learning results from hang-ups, where instead of expanding the branches of what you already know, you have to stop and drift laterally for a while until you come across something that allows you to expand the roots of what you already know. ...During periods of root expansion things have always looked as confused and topsy-turvy and purposeless as they do now... the answers aren't in the branches, they're at the roots."