Francis Story The Search for the Self
The search for Self is vain, because it is a search for something that does not exist except as a mythical concept which has had to be taken into the structure of language by common assent. If it is used in any other way than as a fictitious convenience - if it is taken as meaning something real and enduring - it cannot be anything but a stumbling-block to the development of right understanding.
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- Bahrain
- With Jane and Stephen Leitch, and their son Adam,...
- With the Bangladesh Law Minister, Shafique Ahmen,...
- Lindsay's niece Renate, who is studying veterinar...
- Medical
- CHTC
- Arms sales to Saudi Arabia
- With Baillie Vass and the Grocer: Remembrance Day...
- Bangladesh
- Silbury sun roll yesterday, courtesy Pete Glaston...
- Above: with Steven Spurrier, son of our old frien...
- Where Kina and I lived in Melbourne, Derbyshire, ...
- GENOCIDE!
- Last days of term
- Daguerrotype of High Elms,my great-grandfather's ...
- Maurice at Waiotapu Geothermal Park, Rotorua, Jul...
- Not sure whether I put this on the blog. Taken at...
- Took a long time
- Business of the House
- Medical
- Murdoch and Blair
- Sunday
- Also this week
- An effective contributor to the discussion in Com...
- There was good coverage of the meeting from Press...
- Sitting next to me is Noor, from Sweden
- Saeed at the Bahrain meeting
- Bahrain
- More of the meeting on the CHT
- This is the meeting of the Jumma People's Network...
- Simon gave me a lift back to Parliament after the...
- It was a packed meeting in the Chinese Church, of...
- Simon Hughes MP, at Monday's meeting with the Mal...
- GAVI
- Outside the chamber
- Questions
- Malaysian BOCs
- Further medical
- Horn of Africa drought and famine
- Medical
- Last week
- Me at the age of 11
- My sister Olivia and me, mid-1929
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About Me
- Eric Avebury
- Eric Lubbock, Lord Avebury, b September 29, 1928. Upper Canada College & Balliol College Oxford (BA 1949, boxing blue); Welsh Guards (Second Lieut) 1949-51; Rolls Royce (aero-engine division) 1951-6; Production Engineering 1956-60; Charterhouse Group 1960-2. MP Orpington 1962-70; Liberal Chief Whip 1963-70; Chair, Parliamentary Civil Liberties Group 1964-70; Parliamentary Human Rights Group, 1976-1997; Traveller Law Reform Unit; Peru Support Group, 2003-; Cameroon Campaign Group 2003- Speaker's Conference on Electoral Law 1963-5; Select Committee on Science and Technology, 1968-70; Royal Commission on Standards of Conduct in Public Life, 1974-6 President, Data Processing Management Association, 1972-5; Fluoridation Society, 1972-84; Conservation Society, 1973-83; London Bach Society, 1984-98; ACERT (Advisory Council for Education of Romanies & Travellers) 2001-;TAPOL (Indonesian human rights); Kurdish Human Rights Project; Patron, Angulimala (Buddhist Prison Chaplaincy), 1992-; Founder, Parliamentarians for East Timor, 1988; Vice-Chair, Parliamentary Group for Tibet; Member, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (MIMechE); Fellow, British Computer Society (FBCS).
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