The search ends with the realization that there is no such thing as enlightenment. By searching, you want to be free from the self, but whatever you are doing to free yourself from the self is the self. How can I make you understand this simple thing? There is no 'how'. If I tell you that, it will only add more momentum to that (search), strengthen that momentum. That is the question of all questions: "How, how, how?"
The Mystique of Enlightenment: The Radical Ideas of U. G. Krishnamurti (ed. Sentient Publications, 2002) - ISBN: 9780971078611