Designers face two opposing pulls. With the ego they act on and interact with the world,  but when the ego gets attached to excessive need for attention and begins self harm, the only thing that could save the situation is for one to step back into  solitude and silence:  Here the ego, through meditative practice, is told  to recede into the background and fade away and get back to the "rea you."

 

These are diametrically opposite  positions or states of the "self."  

 

So, when the party is over,  we reflect how can we keep our ego in balance and strip various external identities  down to less and less, where the loud voice of the 'I as doer' slowly fades and disappears, and what remains is pure consciousness.