Master Yourself

Love yourself always and be awake -
Today, tommorow, 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