In your own words and experience can you help me understand the words 'perspective' and 'perception'?

Hi Kasey.

Perspective is your state of mind, the place you stand or viewing point.

Perception is the result of that perspective.

All perception is colored by ones perspective which in turn for most of us is the result of "special notes" or programming we have acquired thru the years.

ACIM speaks of "right perception" which is another term for the clarity & Wisdom that will come when all "special notes", programs, & conditioning has been removed or stopped.

A personal example for me is at one time if someone did something like steal from me I would taken that personally. They did it to me.

Then my perspective changed with a series of Ah-Has & I realized it wasn't personal. They were not doing it to me, they were just doing it. Had another been in my place they would still have done the exact same thing.

This new perspective not only changed my perception, it enabled me to begin the journey to forgiveness & release being a victim to the world & to my own mind set.

Change your mind & you will change your world!

Many Blessings!

EDIT:

"Further explanation of this change: living from a fear-based perspective to one that is ready to face the fear, and hence changes to a love based perspective...or something like that..."

In my experience I found fear to be lack of faith or trust that whatever is happening internally or externally is a unlearning experience rather than a punishment of some kind. Why do we fear? We think we will find a monster in the closet if we take time to look within or that events that appear to be outside of us are designed to bring us to a fall. The outer is the projection of the inner, done this way to help us begin to make the connection again that our state of mind or perspective is what is projected for us to see or our perception.

As I changed my perspective on how the Universe works, my world changed to match.

As within so without. To us in time they seem to happen at the same time but one is cause while the other is effect. Most see it backwards thinking that outer events have shaped their way of thinking. But in Truth it is our way of thinking that shapes our world we perceive.

Many Blessings!

Perception is what we see. I see a blue sky, you see a pale blue sky. someone else sees the sky. We're all looking at the same sky from the same spot, but we all have different perceptons, thus the differences in what we say we see, even though we all see the sky.

Perspective is what we think about what we see. I see a blue sly and I think it means it will be a nice day. You see a pale blue sky and think about pollution or global warming. Someone else sees the sky and thinks - yeah, it's there. It's the difference between seeing the glass half full or half empty. It's what you take from what you see/perceive.

Can I tell you how it relates? No, because I don't know what you are suggesting it relates to.

Do they relate to each other? If that's what your asking, I think so. It's making sense, in your own mind, of what you see.

As for mystical/spiritual connections - I [perceived the words in the dictionary, and from my perspective, they mean what I stated above. There's nothing mystical or spiritual about it,

Although, from someone else's perspective . . . .

Greetings and blessings upon you Kasey Pink.

Your questions are so marvelous. Please do not ever cease asking such magnificent questions.

According to ACIM, a miracle is nothing more than a change in perception. The simple ability to surrender to all that this quote states requires nothing short of a miracle e.g. a change in perception. Miracles are seen as such an extraordinary & glamorous event that surely it must require one whose foot hovers above the ground to invoke such a wondrous occurrence. And yet it does not but one will never come to this realization until they... change their perception.

Enough of my tangent. You have asked what is the difference between 'perception' and 'perspective'. You are venturing into the minutia where confusion reigns supreme. However this challenge will strengthen you once you are illumined with the wisdom that minutia only furthers to separate that which the Creator made as one.

Let's consider this: how one "sees" versus how one holds on to what one "sees" or has "seen". Understand? Perception is receiving while perspective is holding or more commonly accepted as 'believing'. These words and their meanings only hold value while the belief that the great separation remains real. Thus duality and the desire for judgment continues to exist.

You are growing magnificently as your traverse your spiritual path. It is a blessing to have been included as an observer to this miracle of yours.

Blessings

I like Tigers answer.

Perspective is the vision from the various eyes ("I's") you may perceive the world through. Often times. Perspective is the result of your "nature." While there is much potential in a man, a man will always see as a man. A Christian will always see as a Christian, Jew as a Jew, Muslim as Muslim, Atheist as a Atheist and so forth. But this can be changed, but only if they change the "nature" behind the perspective that makes them polarized, then they open up the perspective and make it encompass more. Like a Light that shines through the different faces of a crystal, not just one.

Perception is the quality of how you perceive things. Thus it depends on perspective and is directly related to how you develop your being. So this is the result of being.

1) Perspective - You will notice the prefix of speculation in perspective as an infix. If you want to have perspective you have to be preceptive but also speculative. Perspective, to me, means "an individual insight."

2) Perception - Comes from the nominative Latin perceptio meaning "a taking". Perception, and knowing, are two very different things. To me, perception is a wordless consumption of sensation information. So for example, if you weren't reading this with your knowledge, you would just be seeing it, that is perceiving it. Perception, is a non-judgmental acquiring of information; a clarity sight not hindered by word. It can be said that perception can be effected by knowledge, but I don't define it that way, I call that perspective, knowing, understanding, comprehending, judging, etc.

Example: The car drove into my line of perception, and from my perspective I could tell the driver was drunk.

Perception "I can tell by your body language and unspoken meanings that you do not want to be here".

Perspective "I see my trouble at work with a new perspective as I have become more knowledgeable about the boss".

Now due to changing my perspective I have a new perception of how the office is run".

Oh yeah!!!

My immediate connotation is that perspective is like the geometrical phenomenon as in vanishing point perspective in a picture/drawing of a scene---that is to say it is a means of scaling whats up front by the rest of the scene-----how does it appear against a certain backdrop----what distances are involved between various parts of what is included in the view.

Perception in merely WHAT is observed, possibly it is colored by the observer and whatever biases he may have as limitations,or aids. For instance if he has binoculars the view will be enlarged and clearly focused, if he is inebriated it may be blurry,vibrating,and not make sense to him as to what it really represents. If he has rose-colored glasses the picture will be off-red and cheery.

I think you are violating the sense of "perspective" using it in such questions.

Yes they are the same - ones perspective or perception of something is your own personal & individual slant, belief, idea, view or observation of something and is most definately a subjective thing. Perspective & perceptions are not right, wrong, exact or definitive. They are OUR own and should be accepted as such. They are based upon our own personal life experiences, up bringing, spiritual values or beliefs and internal ideals and expectations of ourselves, others and the world around us.

In my own words and understanding, Perspective is putting a thing into its right place or better situation while perception is how one thinks about something....

Perception is a result of perceiving, perception implies fast and at times sympathetic discernment- as shades of feelings, insight.

Perspective is what someone learns as truth from their experiences, the way they see it to be true, because that's the way it happened to them.

Example: My perspective of all my spiritual paranormal experiences is what I consider to me true, truth, because it happen to me and in a certain way. My perception may come to me a few ways because of my abilities that I perceive it in different ways at different times. My perceptions not only comes to me from my eyes, but from visions, astral travel or projection, telepathic discernment, feelings, my third eye that also sees when I am asleep, and what you perceive from all these aspects, awareness's can form the foundation of your perspective.

Intel~:)