Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. Milan Kundera
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Vertigo is simply the illusion that you are falling, when in fact, you are not. Vertigo is a sensation of motion, but motion does not exist. Vertigo is the feeling that you are moving, when you are not. Vertigo is the conviction that something external to yourself is moving you, when it isn't.

Vertigo is the hallucination that you're falling, when you're not. Vertigo is the experience of being 'pushed' down into an empty black abyss. It's not just fear of falling; it's actually fear of emptiness.

The entire world seems to be spinning around us, and we can't touch anything or grasp anything with our hands. The world below us has nothing at all to do with this vertigo; it's about our own desperate wish to fall away from this floating platform above us and plunge into the emptiness below us.

Source: The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

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