‘The streams do not flow past us, but through us, sweeping, sparkling, effervescent, they make every fibre and cell of our body tremble and make it float and sing’ John Muir.

Andreas Weber quotes this philosopher in his poignant book ‘Aliveness – an erotic ecology’

Andreas Weber quotes this philosopher as he describes the intense experience of being alive in a courageous, aesthetic way, out of an emotion that can only be felt and expressed by people who have become aware of their own touchability without limits, a participation that has nothing to do with obligations or constructs, but with the knowledge, experienced deeply and in all dimensions, of being this overwhelming nature themselves, which touches everything and is indomitable in its intense life-creating lust, which drops its fears in order to touch the space of love and to open its arms, laughing and crying, to its own longings and to all those who reveal themselves in its presence.

Aliveness is love and love is aliveness… far beyond the dimension of the private sphere, it connects everything.

It probably means giving life all the nourishment it needs so that it can dance out of itself again and again to new heights, into new depths, into promising expanses and in many different ways to fulfil its desire to grow, to dance towards its hustle and bustle and to touch itself joyfully with life!

We don’t want to write a book about it that nobody understands who is not prepared to encounter this ecstasy with skin and hair and with every fibre.

We have to dance, because we are this power, we are this life, we are this love and so we are a community that must stop mistrusting each other, becoming hostile to each other, drying each other out, becoming banal and superficial, withering away in its own limitations, but a community that has the intelligence to embody the power of aliveness in its ecstatic, overflowing love and to touch everything with this love as best it can.

Whatever we do, it touches everything!!! What an immense, what an intoxicating opportunity for love, for the fulfilment of everything that human beings can possibly desire.