Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

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Rumi marks the distance between two ambitions that look similar from the outside. Cleverness identifies what is wrong elsewhere; wisdom accepts jurisdiction over the only territory it actually governs.

The sequence matters — clever comes first, and is not dismissed. It is a stage most people pass through, characterised by accurate diagnosis paired with misplaced effort. The shift Rumi describes is not a loss of ambition but a correction of address: the same energy, applied where it can actually take effect.