Tom Bergeron Quotes

My photography is the result of being there at the right moment.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

I'm grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

I haven't really met anyone else who has influenced me, but you never know, it could happen next year or next month. I just like to go with the spur of the moment.

I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

I have gotten better at saying to myself, 'Relax and just take this moment in. Appreciate it for what it is.'

It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.

I kind of drifted into acting through a series of coincidences.

Personally I'm just trying to take advantage of every moment that I get.

At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.

We never know until the beast of opportunity is staring us in the face.

Nothing about my life is lucky. Nothing. A lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don't believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come.

The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.

Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morning: 'I've arrived.' That way you'll find it much easier to stay in touch with each second of your day.

Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea. When you hold your cup, you may like to breathe in, to bring your mind back to your body, and you become fully present. And when you are truly there, something else is also there - life, represented by the cup of tea. In that moment you are real, and the cup of tea is real. You are not lost in the past, in the future, in your projects, in your worries. You are free from all of these afflictions. And in that state of being free, you enjoy your tea. That is the moment of happiness, and of peace.