"The remarkable thing," said Doc, "isn't that they put their tails up in the air––the really incredibly remarkable thing is that we find it remarkable." (Steinbeck, Cannery Row)
If our only benchmark is what we're capable of, it's so easy to be impressed by many different things. We often focus so much on what we can't do that we ignore our own brilliance. In doing so, we actually judge ourselves into thinking we're inadequate, incomplete, or unworthy.
Steinbeck's Doc continues after this exerpt and suggests that if we too could raise our tails in the air, we would know exactly what we're doing and would be less in awe of what's happening. Whether it's truly remarkable or not isn't really the point. Just because we know something or don't know something, doesn't take away from it's remarkability.
There are many remarkably beautiful things in this world. And you, too, are remarkably beautiful.