I think the Talmud says that one should follow all mitzvots without thinking what is a large one and what is a small one. It is not for us to say what is big and little. They are all from G-d.
In my life I have peevs and such and some are seen by others as big and some as little. For me - their size is not the point. In fact - I sometimes will not talk about or complain about the big things because they are big while small things may be seen as manageble. Maybe I am wrong to deal with things this way.
What does one have control over? The big picture? OR the details?
From Fugitive pieces by Anne Michaels
p.22: "'It's a mistake to think it's the small things we control and not
the large, it's the other way around! We can't stop the small accident,
the tiny detail that conspires into fate: the extra moment you run back
for the something forgotten, a moment that saves you from an accident -
or causes one. But we can assert the largest order, the large human values
daily, the only order large enough to see.'"
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