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Reconciliation consists in reconciliation with God, with my neighbour and with myself. The most difficult of these is reconciliation with myself. It comprises the reconciliation with my life story, including my shadowy zones, my body and my guilt. This process also includes reconciliation with the people who have hurt me. For without reconciliation, I remain bound to them. My wound cannot heal unless I forgive the one who wounded me. At the foot of the cross, we learn the secret of reconciliation between God and human beings and reconciliation with all the contradictions within us and around us.