Rejected Stone

"The chemical elements were holding a conference.
One of them arose and said:
“What I am today I was and always shall be,
World and Dalton without end.”
And another arose and said, “That is so.”
Then one after another they supported the proposition
Until the chair was about to call for a vote,
When Uranium shouted, “No!
I am never what I was nor shall I be the same;
You are Christians with beliefs in the eternal soul,
I am a Buddhist with quite divergent views.”
Now Uranium was of little consequence among them,
So they examined him as a schizophrenic,
And tested and tried him in every way they knew;
In the end they concluded that he alone was right,
That all of them were wrong in a certain sense—
The Stone That Was Rejected Became the Corner Stone:
In the Form Ye Think the Least the Son of Man May Come."

~ Murshid Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti)
The Lotus and the Universe (unpublished book)