If your religion requires you to hate someone. You need a new religion.

You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t determine right from wrong, you lack empathy and common sense, not religion.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques, and churches become important.

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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas – even if they are sincerely held beliefs – is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.

Source: “Atkinson defends right to offend” By Toby Helm, published in The Telegraph U.K. 07 Dec 2004.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Source: The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990); Chapter “Kindness and Compassion” page 52.

What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

Source: The Dalai Lama: A Policy of Kindness (1990), “Kindness and Compassion” page: 52.