"Our own heart, our own mind, is the temple. The doctrine is compasión. Love for others and respect for their rights and dignity, no matter who or what they are: ultimately these are all we need ". 

An appeal”, Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 1999 (Ethics for the new millennium)  

   “The greatest religions are all… very simple. They all retain very important essential differences, no doubt, but in their inner reality Christianitty, Buddhism, Islam and Judaism are extremely simple … and they all end up with the simplest and most baffling thing of all: direct confrontation with Absolute Being, Absolute Love, Absolute Mercy or Absolute Void, by an immediate and fully awakened engagement in the living of everyday life.
” Thomas Merton, “Zen and the birds of appetite”