--- title: "11 Listen Quotes By Rumi" description: "11 Listen quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Listen sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/rumi-56_clean_clean-out-your-ears-don-t-listen-for-wha_2397825.jpg" --- > [Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/clean-out-your-ears-don-t-listen-for-what-you-already-know/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/rumi-56_clean_clean-out-your-ears-don-t-listen-for-wha_2397825.jpg) > [Listen to the sound of waves within you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/listen-to-the-sound-of-waves-within-you/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/rumi-56_communication_listen-to-the-sound-of-waves-within-you_1426294.jpg) > [The Inspiration You Seek Is Already Within You. Be Silent And Listen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-inspiration-you-seek-is-already-within-you-be-silent-and-listen/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/757/rumi-56_inspiration_the-inspiration-you-seek-is-already-with_2700829.jpg) > [Listen . Keep silent . You are not gods mouthpiece. Try to be an ear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/listen-keep-silent-you-are-not-gods-mouthpiece-try-to-be-an-ear/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9fb/rumi-56_communication_listen-keep-silent-you-are-not-gods-mout_766306.jpg) > [There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-a-voice-that-doesn-t-use-words-listen/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01d/rumi-56_being-yourself_there-is-a-voice-that-doesn-t-use-words_731383.jpg) > [Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/listen-o-drop-give-yourself-up-without-regret-and-in-exchange-gain/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/138/rumi-56_gains_listen-o-drop-give-yourself-up-without-r_1276097.jpg) > [Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/listen-make-a-way-for-yourself-inside-yourself-stop-looking-in-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cf4/rumi-56_inspirational_listen-make-a-way-for-yourself-inside-yo_3218416.jpg) > [Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/sit-be-still-and-listen-because-you-re-drunk-and-we-re-at-the-edge-of/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ff/rumi-56_body_sit-be-still-and-listen-because-you-re-d_247507.jpg) > [At every moment, Love's voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/at-every-moment-love-s-voice-talks-to-us-from-left-and-from-right-all/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/027/rumi-56_communication_at-every-moment-love-s-voice-talks-to-us_1416593.jpg) > [“Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Is the ground worse for giving in like that?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/love-flows-down-the-ground-submits-to-the-sky-and-suffers-what-comes/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1b/rumi-56_love_love-flows-down-the-ground-submits-to-th_2111418.jpg) > [Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/listen-clam-up-your-mouth-and-be-silent-like-an-oyster-shell-for-that/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2c/rumi-56_enemy_listen-clam-up-your-mouth-and-be-silent_1236698.jpg) ## Other authors on Listen ## More by Rumi > [The love religion is all that is written here.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-love-religion-is-all-that-is-written-here/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/and-so-it-is-that-both-the-devil-and-the-angelic-spirit-present-us/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-began-as-mineral-we-emerged-into-plant-life-and-into-the-animal/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is a morning inside you waiting to burst open into light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-a-morning-inside-you-waiting-to-burst-open-into-light/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/sometimes-you-hear-a-voice-through-the-door-calling-you-this-turning/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“You’ve so distracted me, your absence fans my love. Don’t ask how. Then you come near. “Do not…” I say, and “Do not…,” you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-ve-so-distracted-me-your-absence-fans-my-love-don-t-ask-how-then/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/there-is-something-to-be-said-for-anyone-who-sits-alone-with-dignity/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/tis-easy-to-break-an-idol-very-easy-to-regard-the-self-as-easy-to/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/today-let-us-swim-wildly-joyously-in-gratitude/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [I have no name for what circles so perfectly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-have-no-name-for-what-circles-so-perfectly/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [What draws friends together does not conform to the laws of nature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/what-draws-friends-together-does-not-conform-to-the-laws-of-nature/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [We are born of love. Love is our mother.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-are-born-of-love-love-is-our-mother/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/water-stories-the-body-all-the-things-we-do-are-mediums-that-hid-and/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [If your heart isn't yet illumined Be awake always, be a seeker of the heart, Be at war continually with your carnal soul. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/if-your-heart-isn-t-yet-illumined-be-awake-always-be-a-seeker-of-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) > [“I came back to You because I could not find the kind and decent things I found in You anywhere else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-came-back-to-you-because-i-could-not-find-the-kind-and-decent/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/listen/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "11 Listen Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/clean-out-your-ears-don-t-listen-for-what-you-already-know/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/rumi-56_clean_clean-out-your-ears-don-t-listen-for-wha_2397825.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/rumi-56_clean_clean-out-your-ears-don-t-listen-for-wha_2397825.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/849/rumi-56_clean_clean-out-your-ears-don-t-listen-for-wha_2397825.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know.” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Listen to the sound of waves within you.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/listen-to-the-sound-of-waves-within-you/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/rumi-56_communication_listen-to-the-sound-of-waves-within-you_1426294.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/rumi-56_communication_listen-to-the-sound-of-waves-within-you_1426294.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5b/rumi-56_communication_listen-to-the-sound-of-waves-within-you_1426294.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Listen to the sound of waves within you.” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The Inspiration You Seek Is Already Within You. 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