But he would do it in the strangest way, by declaring that there was no self to find. Lasting happiness — the underlying quest in almost all of Watts… - Alan Watts

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But he would do it in the strangest way, by declaring that there was no self to find. Lasting happiness — the underlying quest in almost all of Watts’s copious writing — can only be achieved by giving up the ego-self, which is a pure illusion anyway. The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.