During Zen meditation retreats, there's a verse that's recited after each meal:
May we exist like a lotus
At home in the muddy water.
Thus we bow to life as it is.
What does this mean to be at home in the muddy water? What does it mean to bow to life as it is? . . . Clarifying the confusion of daily living, cultivating equanimity even within the high-speed messiness of life, and transforming our everyday suffering into the genuine life that all of us want. This entails knowing ourselves and all the ways we hold ourselves back in fear.
— Ezra Bayda, At Home in the Muddy Water