We have been writing to you for one hundred articles.
One hundred explorations of suffering and its end. Of awareness and its nature. Of karma, and Buddha Nature, and the Tao, and grace. Of Rumi and Hafiz and Mary Oliver and Mooji and Papaji. Of the Prodigal Son and the Mustard Seed and the Burning House and the Blind Men and their elephant. Of neuroplasticity and Shinrin-yoku and the science of happiness and the Heart Sutra. Of original poems and satsang questions and practices and parables and pointings.
And now, here at the end of the beginning — because this is only the beginning, this library is only the foundation — we want to say something directly. Not as teachers to students. Not as guides to seekers. As two people who have walked some of this path, who are still walking it, who know from direct experience how hard it can be and how real the freedom on the other side of that hardness is.
We built this for you. Not the abstract you. You, specifically. The one reading this sentence, in whatever circumstances brought you here, carrying whatever you are carrying today.
In our work — in the SageWork community, in the individual people we have been privileged to sit with, in the countless lives that the teachers we have learned from have touched — we have seen something that we want to bear witness to here.
We have seen people arrive broken and leave whole. Not fixed — no one is ever fixed in the sense of being permanently beyond difficulty. But whole. Able to be with themselves. Able to feel what they feel without being destroyed by it. Able to offer genuine love, genuine presence, genuine honesty to the people in their lives. Able to wake up in the morning and meet the day with something that is not quite joy but is something better than joy — a groundedness, a settledness, a quality of being at home in their own experience that they had never known was possible.
We have seen this. We believe it is available to everyone. Including you. Including right now.
Come to a SageWork Circle. Not because you need to be fixed. Because transformation in community is different from transformation alone — deeper, faster, more durable, more joyful. Because being genuinely known by a small group of people who are committed to the same inquiry is one of the most healing experiences available to a human being. Because the eight people in your Circle will, if you let them, become some of the most important relationships of your life.
Read the newsletter. Not as homework. As medicine — taken slowly, one article at a time, when you need it, when you are ready for it. Return to the articles that landed. Return to the poems that opened something. Return to the satsang questions that felt like your own.
We are not gurus. We do not claim to have arrived anywhere you cannot arrive. We are guides — people who have walked some of this terrain, who have found some of the landmarks, who are genuinely committed to your freedom and your flourishing because we know — from direct experience — that your freedom and our freedom are not separate things.
We are Doc and Sarah Jane. We are a couple who have found, in this work and in each other, something worth building a life around. A community worth dedicating ourselves to. A mission that we believe — with everything we have — is one of the most important things two human beings can do with their time: help other human beings end their suffering.
This is SageWork. This is Free Your Mind. This is The Container. This is one hundred articles and everything they are pointing at. And this — right now, in this moment, in whatever condition you arrived in — is the beginning.
With love beyond measure,
Doc & Sarah Jane Hershey
Founders, SageWork
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