Master Yourself

 
 
Love yourself and be awake -
Today, tomorrow, always.
 
First establish yourself in the way,
Then teach others,
And so defeat sorrow.
 
To straighten the crooked
You must first do a harder thing -
Straighten yourself.
 
You are your only master.
Who else?
Subdue yourself,
And discover your master.
 
-adapted from the Dhammapada, translated by Thomas Byrom