Beautiful ideas came springing like lambs in that peaceful place, but there also came thoughts strong as lions.

He dreamed.

He did not think; thought, as it were, lay within himself, and then he spoke out many a word at which he was himself terrified.

Ideas began to shape themselves within him, and before he was aware of it they were clearly spoken by his tongue, as if it was another who spoke for him.

And so he came out of the mysterious depths to the light.
He was often challenged to dispute; he never defended himself except by words, but they were so weighty and fiery that people soon left him in peace.