I went to sleep last night after some meditation, and awoke with this question in my mind:

Why should humankind be unique among all creatures in that we have the capability to deliberately seek the Tao (and by seeking, of course, to be out of harmony with it, to hide it from our own eyes). A fish fishes (lives in harmony with its inmost self and therefore with the Tao) because it must; a bird birds because it must; but a human may or may not human, may strive and grasp and seek instead.

Edit: Forgot this point: or, indeed, is this striving and grasping and seeking part of humaning; is it perfectly in harmony with the Tao because it is in our nature? And if this is the case, does it even make sense for us to try to resist it?

Are we truly the most evolved species, or does this make us the least evolved, the least at one with the Tao?