Struggling to solve problems is often the problem.

"I don't know if you have ever noticed what sometimes happens when you have a problem, either mathematical or psychological. You think about it a great deal, you worry over it like a dog chewing on a bone, but you can't find an answer. Then you let it alone, you go away from it, you take a walk; and suddenly, out of that emptiness, comes the answer. This must have happened to many of us.

"Now, how does this take place? Your mind has been very active within its own limitations about that problem, but you have not found the answer, so you have put the problem aside. Then your mind becomes somewhat quiet, somewhat still, empty; and in that stillness, the problem is resolved.

"[This is] because the answer is in the problem, not away from the problem. I go through the searching, analysing, dissecting process in order to escape from the problem. But, if I do not escape from the problem and try to look at the problem without any fear or anxiety, if I merely look at the problem, mathematical, political, religious, or any other, and not look to an answer, then the problem will begin to tell me. Surely, this is what happens.

"We go through this process and eventually throw it aside because there is no way out of it. So, why can't we start right from the beginning; that is, not seek an answer to a problem -- which is extremely arduous, isn't it? -- because the more I understand the problem, the more significance there is in it. To understand it, I must approach it quietly, not impose on the problem my ideas, my feelings of like and dislike. Then the problem will reveal its significance.

"Why is it not possible to have tranquility of the mind right from the beginning? And there will be tranquility only when I am not seeking an answer, when I am not afraid of the problem."

-- J. Krishnamurti, Ojai, California, 1949
From "In the Light of Silence, All Problems are Dissolved"