Quotes by Elizabeth Kim

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

I loved reading the Dalai Lamas words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself--in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.

People said things to me like Theyre just animals. Theyre here for our use. I had a visceral reaction to that phrase, maybe because I was told countless times during my growing-up years that I was just like an animal. I had suffered much of my life because I was considered less than human. Animals were suffering because they were less than human. And it seemed to me that human didnt have much to be proud of, if they treated other living things with such blind cruelty.

I want true love in this life, and true contentment and peace. But maybe the only way I can find those things is to let go of the belief that this life is my reality.