The passion of self-love suggests to the monk that he should have pity on his body and in the name of its proper care and governance should take food more often than is fitting; for in this way self-love will lead him on step by step to fall into the pit of self-indulgence. On the other hand, self-love prompts those who are not monks to fulfil the body's desires at once. (Maximos the Confessor)

I am uncertain of the Greek that is translated here as self-love.

It might be a form of narzis, a fascination with one's self, related to the myth of Naricissus.

Or Maximos might be using oregomai, meaning to stretch oneself or reach out or to be excited by desire, especially for money or other material objects.

Perhaps alazoneia - self asserting arrogance - or phusiosis, a puffed-up love of self.

Certainly he would not be referring to agapao, the self-sacrificing love of the gospels.

In the twelfth chapter of Mark, verse 31, Jesus tells us, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." We are encouraged to agapao.

δευτέρα αὕτη· ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σεαυτόν. μείζων τούτων ἄλλη ἐντολὴ οὐκ ἔστιν.