Nice article larrymorrison. Your writing is very easy to read and some of the concepts you're writing about resonate with me. I also would have an almost automatic reaction of beating myself up for any mistakes I've made and have only recently started to allow myself to try and let it go rather than spend endless hours and days blaming myself and running the 'what if?' scenarios in my head. :)
I have a bit of a problem though with you saying there are no mistakes. Firstly if you believe that there is a purpose to everything, including our mistakes, then what you're really saying is that things are preordained. That raises a bit of a flag for me because it removes our choices in this world. It means that we're all just actors, parroting our lines and making sure we hit our marks. Where then is the part of free will? Surely it's our choices that make us who we are and is the difference between us. They say our mistakes are the only thing that is truly ours, and if they don't belong to us, by being preordained, then we are not individuals but only marionettes. :)