I agree wholeheartedly. Jesus called us blind, not evil, that we know not what we do. This applies both to the beauty and ugliness of our doings. The lasting quality of joy in Christ, independent of circumstances and conditions, is the difference in being. The essential character of all creation is to thrive. Without being hidden in Christ, this core element of life is twisted into ambition, greed, dominance, and a hundred other forms of self-inflicted misery. Christ is "the way, the truth, and the life" to how we can thrive, come to realize ("become aware of and bring into being")our true potential, identity and purpose. The glory of God is a human being fully alive.
God is love, and as we are made in the image and likeness of God, love is the I Am both of God and man. Christ is the incarnation of love, its source and nature, and the only way to the father is through the son, which is love. Love is the only true vision of reality, the only way out of our blindness. 
Such love as described and lived by Jesus can exist in Buddhists, Muslims, or anyone else not a professed Christian. It is not necessary to convert to Christianity to be saved but to revert to the essence of our I Am, which is love. This is why it can be said that without love we have nothing and we are nothing.