Affirmation (n.) is a way of living characterized by 'saying yes' to life in all its aspects including suffering and pain. To exalt life at all costs and to embrace fate, warts and all (amor fati).
Affirmation (n.) is disburdening or lightening. It is to attain the 'innocence' of other possibilities.
Affirmation (n.) is never about affirming any one proposition or thesis about life, but to in fact engage in a non-assertional style of thinking. To affirm is to attain the innocence of other possibilities.
Affirmation (n.) is something higher than all reconciliation.
Affirmation (n.) is necessarily an affirmation of all existence. If we affirm one moment, we thus affirm not only ourselves but all existence. For nothing is self-sufficient, neither in us ourselves nor in things... and if our soul has trembled with happiness and sounded like a harp string just once, all eternity was needed to produce this one event.
Affirmation (n.) is the principle not of asserting or assuming, but of lightening and releasing into the fresh air of other possibilities.
Affirmation (n.) of one single moment affirms all existence: if the soul has trembled with happiness just once, all eternity was needed to produce that event — and in it all eternity was redeemed and justified.
Affirmation (n.) of the Dionysian kind finds the denied sides of existence not merely necessary but desirable for their own sake — the more powerful, fruitful, truer sides, where existence's will speaks more clearly.