Question: Can you stand outside of time and see time go all around?

Sri Chinmoy: Certainly. What God Himself is, remains beyond the Creation. The Creation is a hill, let us say. If God wants to remain at a distance from the hill, He easily can. When you create something, that is part of your own reality. When you are drawing a picture, your whole consciousness — your hand, eyes, nose, everything — is seeing and experiencing the picture. But then you can just withdraw from it and see it as your creation. While doing it, you and your creation are inseparable. But afterwards, you can stand at a distance and look at it.