Food for Thought ~ Week 5 ~ You Cannot Make a Mistake

I don't know about you, but I am sure that I am my hardest critic.  So when Steven Conway, at my most recent iPEC weekend, had us sit with the concept: "You cannot make a mistake.", I sat with it!
My thoughts:
We don't deliberately make mistakes, rather they are accidental.    In any moment, aren't we all doing the best we can to move though life given our current circumstances?   So, couldn't a mistake be a series of actions or decisions that lead to an outcome, that we don't like?  It's easy to look back and say whoa, that was a mistake...but was it at the time?
As Alexander Pope so famously says:  To err is Human; to Forgive, Divine...

From a Yogis Perspective:
​Sutra 2.35: “ahimsā-pratiṣthāyām tat-sannidhau vaira-tyāgaḥ”
Patanjali introduces ahimsa: non-violence, the first of the Yamas, the yogic principles of social discipline.  No violence includes negative thoughts about yourself and others. 

If we are doing the best we can when a "mistake" occurs is it a "mistake"?   This line of thought does not release us from the consequence of the decisions and actions, yet it does offer an opportunity to give yourself a little grace and to learn and grow. 
Own it, do better. 

Food for Thought:
Can you apply this perspective to what you may consider past mistakes?