An introduction of sorts

As there is something innately egotistical about the new era of blogging that our flat and ever-so-flattening world has emerged into, I find a desire and need to share my own thoughts with those people who may be interested. I only ask that you enjoy and question what I say as I sincerely believe in what Socrates said: "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
It is our moral responsibility to all mankind to always be seeking knowledge and consequently diminish our ignorance.
This first blog post introduces my thoughts and hopefully sets the stage for my following posts. Living aware is an idea I got from studying Buddhism for a short amount of time. A paramount ideal for Buddhists is to always be increasingly aware of things around you both physically and spiritually. "The greatest precept is continual awareness."
Being a man trying to realize a clearer faith in God every day, I am always struggling to gain a broader sense of awareness, a "continual awareness." One of my greatest goals is that those reading this will attempt in their own lives to continually strive to be aware on a deeper level than simply noticing the happenings around you.
I perceive it as quite ironic that some of my most lucid moments have occurred when I was dreaming. Hence, the other half of the title of this blog, Open Eyes, relates to much more than simply having ones' eyes physically open. I am referring to keeping our perspectives open to differences that might make us want to close our eyes. Obviously I am speaking metaphorically here and referring to closing our eyes as shutting off the uncomfortable or unfamiliar instead of trying to understand it more clearly.
In an attempt to maintain the reader's attention here, I will pause my thoughts (which is not possible actually), and leave these little "thought seeds" to germinate and grow.
Feel free to become a "Follower" of this blog as I am not writing this for only myself but for the possibility that others might find it helpful as well.
I will leave this post with a quote from a wonderful collections of books which I read often yet do not take literally 100% of the time, The Bible. Jesus is quoted in the book of Mark as saying, "And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened."
So I pass on this revolutionary idea to you: Ephphatha.