The Tao has an elegant way of putting things.  This includes its opening, its first verse (if that's what it's called.)

My own sense of it, it goes something like this, and I'm reading, or enlightened to the particular subtlety through the excellent Penguin Classics version translated by D.C. Lau, a venerable, obviously, scholar of Chinese Philosophy.  And I will simply quote it directly.

     The nameless was the beginning of earth and heaven;
     The named was the mother of the myriad creatures.
     Hence always rid yourself of desires in order to observe its secrets;
     But always allow yourself  desires in order to observe its manifestations.


Interesting.  Let's take wine, for example, not exactly one of the myriad creatures, but a product of nature just the same.  In order to observe the manifestations of the range of wine, yes, you must allow yourself a measure of gastronomical desires, to gain a sense of the great mystery.  But, also, we are called upon to rid ourselves of desires toward wine, in order to observe the great secrets of its creation.  So, a yin and yang, desire and non-desire, manifestation, secrets beyond manifestation.

How do you read this?  One involves the gratification of ego, and the other the deep consciousness, the awareness within.  And, perhaps, there is a subtle leaning toward the necessity of the latter, after having observed the manifestations.  I mean, if you're going to be a philosopher and comprehend all there is to comprehend.