Every person has invisible spikes (like the spikes of Porcupine), some people have long spikes and some have short spikes. When someone have long spikes it is difficult to get close because it will hurt you. Anyway, our own spikes can hurt our friends too when we try to be close. That is why it is better to keep a hand distance if you are not good to clip your spikes or to bear with your friends spikes. Only mothers can bear the pain of their own kids. The purpose of this life is to get rid of those spikes so you can love anybody like a mother, especially yourself.
(A talk of Ajahn Brahm's and recent threat to friendship motivated to write this )
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