Imagine you are in an art gallery looking at one of the 30 paintings hanging on the walls. Suddenly one of them captures your eye and gives you a feeling internally. It's not something you taste, smell, touch, hear, or see, but rather something about that painting moves you on a spiritual level.
You start to dive into that one particular painting. You could ask, "how did he paint this" or "what type of brush did he use" but this won't help you understand the painter more. Let's assume its a painting of a sad face using only blues and yellows and short brush strokes.
So the first thing you should be asking is, "why did he paint this?", "why is this person sad?" and "why did he use blues and yellows?". These "why" questions are what get you to understand the motives and mind of the artist.
Then the painting becomes more beautiful. You find out he painted this because he wanted to capture his inner innocence as a child coming to the realization his mother died, short brush strokes symbolizing the length of life - short as his time as a child, and his mother’s being cut short. He used blues to represent the overwhelming feeling of being lost at sea in his mind. The light yellows were the happiness in his life that felt like they were fading away. Now you are drawn in, now you understand the artist more.
Across the room you spot another painting; you know the style. You know this is the same artist - something about it. But this time there are reds and black. It's a man in a pit reaching up to a bright yellow at the top of the pit. You find another painting and another, and you start to see how they are all connected. You then start to understand the life and desires of the inner artist and you can sympathize with him.
Understanding the artist impacts you deeply and you now change how you interact with your children and your mother. You see how valuable time is and your relationship with family. You get a glimpse of what the painter saw and the painter’s desires, and they affect you.
You've never heard an audible word from the artist, yet you understand and know him. You've never physically seen him, but the gallery is filled with his life. You've never touched him, but he has touched every fiber of your soul.
This is how you approach creation. Dig in, and ask the “why.” Start to understand G-d on a deeper level, and start to align your desires with His desires from a place of understanding. Then you'll start to see G-d in everything. You'll feel G-d in everything, hear G-d in everything, and know His work in everything.
If you want to break the veils and see the light, this is how. Because the first time you walk in the gallery of creation, you don't know much. As you learn, you are moved; as you are moved, you start to see more & understand more. Creation reacts to G-d's desires because G-d is the artist of Creation. The Torah is G-d’s tool of creation, the ‘light’ that was in the beginning. You can transform your inner qualities into the Torah, the tool on that canvas, and paint beautifully with the Creator. If you choose to be a tool with the intent of His desires, then you can move mountains. The artist has no bounds to what He does with the canvas, and His tool, which created all things, can renew and re-create all things.
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