From the book “Amazing Grace” by Kathleen Norris:

“I began to understand that idolatry was more than the literal worshipping of graven images when I was able to see it in the context of the great commandment that Jesus gives in the gospels, to love God with all your heart and soul, and to love your neighbour as yourself. And all of these loves are interrelated: self-love is nothing if it doesn’t include the love of our neighbour and of the God who created us all in the divine image. A measure of balance in these objects of our devotion is a safeguard against idolatry,which can give any of the three too much weight. We can love ourselves too much, but we can also love others to a possessive excess. And even religious devotion, which literally means the dedicating or consecrating of oneself by a vow, can become an idol. We can become so focussed on our love of God that we demean other people in the process.”