"Je vieillis donc je suis"

The inspiring new book by Maria Andreas 

Maria Andreas (author of 'I Tell You Never Give Up' and 'Illness: My Complicit Enemy' among other titles) shares physical and spiritual tips for enhancing, prolonging and celebrating la vie!

Life, a precious gift. As she writes on the back cover "I hold on to life, and I have still not had enough of it".

Intimate and universal, practical and 'ideal' - you won't want to let go of this precious little book either. 

From the Prologue:

I love the rain, the heavy rain when I'm in bed with the window open.
I love the sea, be it purple, orange or grey.
I love incense to my God who elevates all my mediocrities.
I love meeting people.
I love to laugh…
However, I know that there’s nothing can prevent my body from returning to the clay. An obvious fact that pushes me to approach life with more lightness, trying to keep the heaviness of the body at bay!

From a later chapter, describing her life:

A vagabond journey sometimes in the ditches, sometimes on the paths! I loved them all equally: enjoying the company of rockers, bad boys, artists, intellectuals, revolutionaries, hippies, gurus, psychotherapists, theologians just as much as that of the top directors of Swiss banks or Cypriot monks in the monasteries. But above all I held on. I hold on. I cling tight to life and I still have not had enough of it.