Does Saying No Ever Mean Yes?

Being afraid can be fun. If you’re afraid, you have all kinds of excuses not to do something and you can say no. Saying no is fun. But you can’t appear petulant when you do it.

Does saying no ever mean yes? They’ve made such a big deal about that up above. One of the first customs that I initiated here after my coronation as Queen of Hell was the ritual of no. Now some misguided souls—but then we’re all misguided down here—think that it really is the Ritual of Noh and that it has some Buddhist or Zen connotations.

But, the ritual of no is in fact very simple. It merely consists of looking someone very seriously in the eye and saying, no, saying no whenever you feel like it. By saying no, you expunge the negativity. The essence of it is saying no to life. And in so doing, you release a kind of energy. When you let go of all the negativity, you then become alone with yourself. And that is good, very good. You can hear yourself then.