Adoration comes around again to the first element of love — attention — and shows us how the practice of love, without the benefit of dogma or theology, brings us into the vicinity of the sacred. In Buddhist cultures the recognition that every human being has an inalienable right to adoration is expressed in the daily ritual of greeting. Strangers and friends meeting on the street place their hands together in a prayerful gesture, bow to one another, and say "Namaste" — the god within me salutes the god within you. Thus they express reverence for the intrinsic sacredness of each life.
— Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved