I saw this in Yoga Journal and thought it had some bearing on what we strive to do here.
"Pankajam is one of the many Sanskrit words for "lotus" and means "that which is born out of the muck or mud". The lotus flower grows in the swamp but rises above it, sitting on top of the mire so that it is not sullied by the swamp it came from.
... The lotus leaf does not absorb what falls on it; water beads up and slips off, leaving the leaf unaffected. So we, too, should strive for the mind to be undisturbed by whatever it comes into contact with. No matter what our background or what circumstances we are born into, we all have lotus potential"
