The bath is a symbolic cleansing of my worldly problems and attachments. Momma says it's immature and naive of me to think this isn't true. I disagree with her, silently. Silently only because we have had this discussion before. It doesn't need thorns to bring it out.
Light is the other side of darkness.
Without darkness there would be no shadows. No shadows, no forms. No forms, no way to even define beauty, but especially no beauty. So, by that definition, beauty without thorns is nirvana. To learn about balance, you must take the journey.