Source: A Scanner Darkly
The Moment Under the Moment (London: Jonathan Cape, 1992), Foreword
“In this line of work, too much paranoia can be worse than too little.”
Source: The Laundry Files, The Jennifer Morgue (2006), Chapter 5, “High Society” (p. 101)
“Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.”
Variant: Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen
Source: Bleeding Edge (2013), p. 11
“How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored?”
About withdrawing diplomatic recognition of Taiwan in favor of the People's Republic of China
"One Man's Cup of Coffee," Time Magazine profile (June 30, 1961)
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
Context: The Conqueror, whose core issue is safety splits us into Conqueror and Enemy/Victim, tells us, "Don't trust!" and generates fear, paranoia, distortions of reality, and the need to annihilate enemies. The Conqueror seduces us by making us feel special, sometimes grandiose and self-righteous, sometimes especially weak and victimized.
Article, Evening Standard, Tue 25 June 2013, pp.1-4
Yes, really new, and yet as all those who have ever experienced it assert, at that moment we know that we have always been at home in that world, although we only now become aware of it.
Attributed without citation at Nonduality Salon Highlights, #1891 http://www.nonduality.com/hl1891.htm, 15 August 2004
