“Einstein asked a ‘what if’ question, about pursuing a beam of light at the speed of light, on his way to comprehending the nature of light and gravity. [Civil rights activist] John Lewis asked a ‘what if’ question as a tool for social alchemy: what if the beloved community were already a reality, the true reality, and he simply had to embody it until everyone else could see?”
-Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living (Penguin Press, 2016), p. 110
