The point is that experiencing sacredness should not stop at the shrine but expand to all things, including the natural world and all the beings in it. The sacred is much simpler than we think; it's all about respecting and embracing and not objectifying.

Objectifying is perhaps the oldest of negative human habits. We objectify people, and it is very destructive. To objectify means to degrade to the status of a mere object. To objectify means to deny the value and living presence in someone or something. We are not recognising that fundamentally we are the same. We are related; we are human beings; we share humanness.

-- Anam Thubten Rinpoche