In discourse, negation is used in order to affirm:
Stop negating and begin affirming.
Come, stop saying
"this is not" and "that is not":
Bring forward that One
who has Real Being.
Put aside negation
and worship only that Real Being.
~ Rumi
Mathnawi VI: 640-642
Version by Camille and Kabir Helminski
"Rumi: Jewels of Remembrance"
Threshold Books, 1996
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