Shari Arison founded and is the owner of Essence of Life (EoL), out of her vision that spreading awareness towards personal growth and achieving inner peace will bring peace to the world at large. Fully funded by the foundation, Essence of Life operates to realize Shari Arison’s vision of Doing Good, and serves to raise awareness and offer tools for attaining inner peace. In a broad and holistic approach, in group workshops combining knowledge and emotional experience, through Internet radio broadcasts in Hebrew, and in interactive experiential tours at Mahuti (Hebrew for My Essence) visitors center, seeds of awareness are spread and circles of peace extend out to the world at large. (Established in 2001)
Essence of Life values, written by Shari Arison
- When we will achieve peace with ourselves individually and with our surroundings – together we will reach world peace
- We all are one – but every individual is unique
- We are god’s children and everyone has a divine spark
- Everyone has virtues, e.g. love, compassion, tranquility, unity, purity, happiness, truth, light, power, knowledge, etc.
- There is one source of power
- Unity – we are parts of a greater whole. We come into the world as separate entities, where each one has his or her unique destiny and role. Therefore we should strive to be united
- We all have the right and ability to reach internal happiness and peace of mind. We all have the free choice and the responsibility to influence our lives and create our reality
- Our essence is love
- We are souls and human beings
- The universe provides us with an infinite number of ways and clues how to reach our essence, develop, grow up and get to know ourselves
- One can observe, listen and know oneself
- The experience of life is, in every given moment, the here and now – the present. Everything exists simultaneously
- The power of thought creates reality
- The individual reflects and is a reflection of the other
- Every action has a reaction (the universal law of karma)
- The world functions in circularity and is constantly changing (seasons, nights and days, birth and death)
- We strive to achieve internal balance, body, mind, spirit and soul – in all the levels of our existence
- We can learn to connect to our own virtues, thus comprehending and connecting to the ones of other individuals
- We teach the other and learn from them simultaneously, in a continuous, infinite process
- Everyone is responsible to strengthen the relations between the individual, the community and nature
- We are all in a journey of remembrance whose purpose is to connect us to the essences of our souls and the understanding that all is one
- A constant development and changes in our perceptions and growth bring about the change in our personal and collective awareness