Quotes from Alistair Shearer

The headman nodded, then asked: "So is this is the cause of rebirth, Sir?" "It is. An individual may have to take an indefinite number of births to harvest the effects of all his latent impressions, and then, in each fresh lifetime there is further action, which sows further seeds of karma".

Well, it will continue until the destruction of its cause". "And what is that, Sir?" "The way we identify with our body as the doer of action. And this lifelong habit is only destroyed by knowing oneself to be the bodiless Self. This is why it is said that knowledge is the fire that reduces karma to ashes".

Each one of us must endure the fruits of his past actions. Whatever a human being is involved in during a lifetime leaves its impression stored in his mind and this impression acts as the seed from which future desires and actions will in time sprout. These seeds may take many births to come to fruition; like any crop, they need favourable conditions to appear. You are a farmer Sir, so you know well the principles involved here".