Francis Kong - Pursuit of Hapiness

Excerpts from Francis Kong's seminar on the Pursuit of Hapiness.

3 major deprivations
1. Time
2. Attention
3. Sleep

"Stress" as an excuse to not accept challenge!

"We have the culture of performance"
"We need to have more sense to our lives"
"Worst thing political correctness."
"Today everything is relative!!!"
"You change the meaning of words and life: political correctness"
"Pinakamiserable ang mga swapang. = the self is the hardest to satisfy"
"Acquire to attain success."
"What delights you will direct you."
"What you pursue will possess you."

"You will always attract who you are!"

1. Pursue the love! 
"Take risks as well to achieve great things"
"Trying times are times that we don't stop trying"
"Learn to live in the edge"
"Materialism and humanism reigns; No god, suicidal"
"Forgiveness does not change the past, it enlarges the future"
"If we don't forgive we become the person we hate."

2. Pursue the lesson
"Do not lose the lesson even when you lose."
"Failure is not an option, giving up is."
"Learning mistakes, stupid mistakes"
"The strengths we have today usually come from the mistakes."
"If emotions drive you and not your will, your dead."

3. Pursue kindness
"Do unto others as if you were the others"
"Do we really understand respect?"
"Leaders learn to submit to authority and respect those under you."


"Deep within every man existential longing for the following:
The pursuit for Truth
The pursuit of Relationship
The pursuit of Wonder"

"Your sense of wonder for God can bring you closer to God."

"The Hebrews gave the world its moral laws
The Greeks gave the world its philosophical categories
The Romans gave the world its legal categories"

"Hebrews gratest pursuit is symbolized by light.
Greek's ultimate goal was knowledge.
Romans were the epitome of life was symbolized by glory."

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,”[a] made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ. 2 Corinthians 4:6

"Christ did not come to make good people but to make dead people alive"