I recently heard someone describe the questing (and questing, I might add, is the natural and inevitable bent of every one of us, as we continually seek new ways of framing and understanding our existence) human being as a perforated self.  Only a perforated self, he said, is a being who is open to new input and ideas, and only a perforated self is a being who presents herself to the world and, by extension, he said, God, as one who is willing to be changed by what is not just around her, but over her as well.  A perforated self, he said, is a person ready to really see.
    So what does it mean to really see?  Simply, it is to understand that we do not wander as lonely and autonomous individuals in a cold and insensate universe.  She will see that because there is a God, we are in a world infused with possibility, a world that, because it is not random, is a world with intentional potential and purpose.
     (By the way, yes, the existentialists agreed that we are lonely and responsible, but as they did not acknowledge the presence of God, they left us with no way out of this frightening impasse other than to make choices which, in a random and meaningless universe, really have no point, no point at all.)
     The perforated self will see that in order to learn from this world we must be receptive to what it has to say.  And the world will only have something to say if it has been spoken.  Can nothingness, a somethingess devoid of speech, really create a speaking world?