Change yourself

When I was a young man I was very much eager to do something for my country because I thought my country needed to change. So I met some people and these people told me, that's good. You have a sense of responsibility, but have you thought first to change yourself? And I said how could that happen? And they told me, well, what we suggest is that you look at your life at the light of four moral standards: absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love and see where in your life you've failed towards any of these standards and then try to put that right.