How can the greatest commandments form the paradigm for our lives? How can these two commandments inform and transform our worldview to help us face the challenges of life? What do these commandments tell us about relationship with God, ourselves, and others? This book studies these questions, arriving at many counterintuitive conclusions.

A layman meditates on Jesus' comment on the greatest commandments: "All the Law and Prophets hang on these two commandments." That contemplation led to a profound change in his worldview that freed him from the outlook that is socially and culturally established.