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Here’s a related, interesting comment I recently encountered:

“A tzaddik is so captivated by the love of G-d that he attends to mundane matters almost casually, preoccupied, as he is, with far more exalted interests. During ordinary discussion his mind relates the subject at hand to G-d by natural transfer, like a lover whose every experience reminds him of his beloved.”

From page ix in the introduction to the Book of Nehemiah, in Daniel-Ezra-Nehemiah, Kesuvim / The Writings, Mesorah Publications Ltd., 2016.