808 – “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone for others. Unfold your own myth.”

–Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi

Quote Number:  951

Source: Rumi, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad. “Unfold Your Own Myth.” In The Essential Rumi. Coleman Barks, translator. HarperOne: San Francisco. 2004. Pg 41. Online Here.

Source Notes: I believe this poem originally comes from either Rumi’s Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi or Kolliyaat-e Shams-e Tabrizi

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