My first image of the YS some years ago was: The world is always pregnant with new ideas. These ideas can be born in the YS. Or some years later: We are all born with an unknown name. The meaning of life is to search for this name, and the YS supports this searching.
And today: The YS is a garden full of all different kinds of flowers. The question is: Who is the gardener. (And it is not me!)

For me, the YouthSection is a place where I can be taken seriously as a human being, without having to wear a mask. It is a place of overcoming tradition and routine, where something quite new wants to flow into the world. A place where I have no fear of the things that are yet to come.

The Youth Section is a place of possibilities, where all kinds of wonderful and creative things can grow. It is here to support the new - what wants to become. It is here to support the good in the world - so it can grow stronger. It is always in movement trying to listen to the world.

For me the youth section is like a carefully crafted clay pot, sculptured by the people from the past. It is filled with (bio-dynamic) filterlised potting mix which contains many different types of wild flower seeds. We are each the different grains of soil - alone we cannot grow the seeds but together we can bring incredible things to bloom.

For me, the Youthsection is an embassy.  Maybe we should even have our own currency for the coffeemachine and the internet cafe!  For me this is sacred ground, safe ground -- It’s a home for us young and old changemakeres, the movers and shakers -- A place to regroup, to come up with new ideas and meet long-lost and finally-found friends.  There's a familiarity despite, or probably because of the many nationalities and cultures that meet here.  It's not a place where people come to stay for too long, but it's a meeting point along the way.

I see the youth section as a kind of mirror that reflects all the growing, youthful stars of the universe, revealing back to them their highest, brightest potentials...at the same time, it is a kind of a star in and of itself, shedding its own light too...

I see the YouthSection as it appears, as a place and as an ideal in the world, as a beacon on a lone mountain peak. A fire that shines out into the world and can be seen and felt from afar. Mostly it is a cold and lonely job for the ones whose task it is to keep the fire going and although the fire keeps them warm it is for many varied others that they keep it burning in that barren place.

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