2/03/18
“Broadly speaking, the favorable or unfavorable nature of the physical surroundings into which we are born depends on the effects of our previous actions in spreading happiness or unhappiness among other people.
The physical results on others of actions on the physical plane work out karmically in repaying to the actor physical good or bad surroundings in a future life.
If he has made people physically happy by sacrificing wealth or time or trouble, this action karmically brings him favorable physical circumstances conducive to physical happiness.
If he has caused people widespread physical misery, he will reap karmically from his action wretched physical circumstances conducive to physical suffering.
And this is so, whatever may have been his motive in either case – a fact which leads us to consider the law that:
Every force works on its own plane.
If a man sows happiness for others on the physical plane, he will reap conditions favorable to happiness for himself on that plane, and his motive in sowing it does not affect the result.
A man might sow wheat with the object of speculating with it to ruin his neighbor, but his bad motive would not make the wheat-grains grow up as dandelions.
Motive is a mental or astral force, according as it arises from will or desire, and it reacts on moral and mental character or on the desire-nature severally.”
Annie Besant
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 