It is a certain amount of force which has to work itself out.

Nothing can prevent the action of that force, but its action may always be modified by the application of a new force in another direction, just as is the case in mechanics.

The result of past evil is like any other debt; it may be paid in one large cheque upon the bank of life--by some one supreme catastrophe; or it may be paid in a number of smaller notes, in minor troubles and worries; in some cases it may even be paid in the small change of a great number of petty annoyances.

But one thing is quite certain--that, in some form or other, paid it will have to be.
The conditions of our present life, then, are absolutely the result of our own action in the past; and the other side of that statement is that our actions in this life are building up conditions for the next one.

A man who finds himself limited either in powers or in outer circumstances may not always be able to make himself or his conditions all that he would wish in this life; but he can certainly secure for the next one whatever he chooses.
Man's every action ends not with himself, but invariably affects others around him.