--- title: "11 Listening Quotes By Rumi" description: "11 Listening quotes by Rumi. Plus more from Rumi and more Listening sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/rumi-56_communication_learn-to-speak-by-listening-1522781_1522781.jpg" --- > [Learn to speak by listening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/learn-to-speak-by-listening/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/rumi-56_communication_learn-to-speak-by-listening-1522781_1522781.jpg) > [No more words. Hear only the voice within.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/no-more-words-hear-only-the-voice-within/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/50c/rumi-56_hear_no-more-words-hear-only-the-voice-within_2482251.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) > [We can't find the truth listening to our own voice's echo. We can find ourselves only in someone's mirror](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/we-can-t-find-the-truth-listening-to-our-own-voice-s-echo-we-can-find/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/91d/rumi-56_echoes_we-can-t-find-the-truth-listening-to-our_56360.jpg) > [Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/let-go-of-your-mind-and-then-be-mindful-close-your-ears-and-listen/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/227/rumi-56_ears_let-go-of-your-mind-and-then-be-mindful_1924048.jpg) > [When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/when-a-man-makes-up-a-story-for-his-child-he-becomes-a-father-and-a/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/099/rumi-56_children_when-a-man-makes-up-a-story-for-his-chil_411706.jpg) > [Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/since-in-order-to-speak-one-must-first-listen-learn-to-speak-by/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/841/rumi-56_communication_since-in-order-to-speak-one-must-first-l_3097162.jpg) > [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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f16/rumi-56_calling_sometimes-you-hear-a-voice-through-the-d_10487.jpg) > [The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/the-soul-a-wide-listening-sky-with-thousands-of-candles/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10c/rumi-56_candle_the-soul-a-wide-listening-sky-with-thous_3055545.jpg) > [I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/i-have-been-a-seeker-and-i-still-am-but-i-stopped-asking-the-books/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/034/rumi-56_asking_i-have-been-a-seeker-and-i-still-am-but_340397.jpg) > [You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/you-run-back-and-forth-listening-for-unusual-events-peering-into-the/) [Rumi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rumi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/727/rumi-56_events_you-run-back-and-forth-listening-for-unu_791686.jpg) ## Other authors on Listening ## 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/listening/rumi/#itemlist", "name": "11 Listening Quotes By Rumi", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Learn to speak by listening.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Rumi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rumi/learn-to-speak-by-listening/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/rumi-56_communication_learn-to-speak-by-listening-1522781_1522781.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/rumi-56_communication_learn-to-speak-by-listening-1522781_1522781.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/rumi-56_communication_learn-to-speak-by-listening-1522781_1522781.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Learn to speak by listening.” — Rumi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No more words. 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