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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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- Today's pingpong
- Chagos Islands
- We only had time for two games of ping pong before...
- At the Kurdistan reception, June 26
- Yesterday JW beat me 3-1 at ping pong, so he's lea...
- Archie and his Dad Alan, at the graduation.
- Archie's Graduation
- Wedding at Ogbourne St George
- Lindsay and me at the wedding
- Flavia and John Ormond with the bridesmaids
- Lindsay in Mexico, 1981
- Speech in the Earl of Sandwich's debate on Nepal
- Three speeches and two written questions
- Could it happen again?
- With Ben Abbotts in Bromley High Street
- Bromley & Chislehurst by-election
- Extract from yesterday's Hansard
- Me in the garden yesterday
- Extract from yesterday's Hansard
- Eleanor Paston, b bef 1496, d 1550
- Maurice Lubbock in his Bugatti, c 1936
- Maurice Lubbock lecture
- Lunch yesterday at Kina's: Tordie, Victoria, Kina ...
- Chatting with Adeline in the Octagon
- The percussion orchestra
- The balloons were popular
- The big tent
- Lindsay at her consultation, Myatt's Fields
- JW
- Today Tordie went to stay with her friend Brennie ...
- Aunt Victoria, Philip, Lyulph, Edwina
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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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