text:  If you don't pick it up, nothing happens. So what he meant was, picking up the speck of dust can be doing anything. Next to the immensity of the universe, anything you do is a speck of dust. Building a new Zen temple, fighting for world peace, fighting for gay rights, doesn't matter what, it's just a tiny speck of dust. But if you pick it up, if you're one of those people,