“You must now birth the idea that human beings do indeed change. While you have known instinctively that there is a core, a center to each that is unchangeable, you must now give up the idea that this core or center has been represented by the past. You must forget the idea that the future cannot be different than the past.” (ACOL, T3:15.7)
Our core is the inner Christ-Self, and this Self has not been accurately portrayed by the “little,” or personal self. The personal self has been a persona, and previously it was an egoic persona. Now it is the self only that we present to our brothers and sisters, but it is a self that has been informed by the Christ-Self, the core that does not change. Never presented to others beforehand, of course we didn’t know what people were really like. We had never shown our true face.
Yes, when we allow the Christ-Self to emerge, and when this Christ-Self informs the personal self, we will see that our brothers and sisters will change. We will see that we change. Our misgivings about past misdeeds can be forgotten. The inner core was not represented in deeds of hostility. The Christ-Self is loving and peaceful, and this face will be seen now. The egoic self is no more, in us who are reading A Course of Love. And the personal self that we present to others will be a new face when it is informed by the emergent Christ-Self.
There is much hope in the passage for today. People who have executed deeds that are deplorable can be seen to change, because their core is good. And when they come to understand the Self Who is deep within, they can exhibit good behavior, behavior that has not seen the light of day until now.
The ego needs to die, and this is not the ego of Freud, but the ego presented in ACIM and ACOL, a false version of the self. The ego that needs to die lives in fear, and we know that living in fear is no way to live at all.
Allow hope to transform our day. All people have the potential to become new when a new identity emerges from deep within. This is the transforming hope for our world.
Prayer
I am going to allow hope to transform this day, the first day of the rest of my life. Hope quells illness, among other things. It alleviates any “down” feeling that we have. It is vastly underrated.
Be with me today. Help me to love with an ever-greater love. And may I reach out to those I encounter with genuine love.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 
When we have contact with the eternal we realize how unimportant our earthly self really is.
Hello Celia, I am curious about your comment that the ego needs to die and is not the ego of Freud but the ego presented in ACIM and ACOL. I do not see a difference between the two, can you explain what you mean, please? Thank you.
I am discussing what Ken Wapnick said, and perhaps I should have given him credit. He was a renowned scholar of A Course in Miracles. if I understood him correctly, he said that the two interpretations of the word “ego,” ACIM’s and Freud’s, are not the same.
I see the ego of ACIM as a false persona, one that we need to discard. Freud’s understanding of the ego he described, instead, was of a persona that develops as we mature, a necessary development to form a stable personality.
Thank you for asking.
Most cordially, Celia