Truth is the correspondence of the mind and reality.
We are true and we live in the truth not because we never err or never fail into falsehood, but because we already are and always have been within the manifestation of reality. We are in the truth because, even when erring, "we are" a relationship with reality. And reality "awaits expectantly," if we may so express it, for our openness so that it can manifest itself in its true sense.
The mature thinker would probably compare the question--'Is there really such a thing as truth?'--to a young man's first hesitant conversation with a girl, from which he came away convinced 'she loves me!' Now it would be a strange lover indeed who would be content with the mere ascertainment that this is in fact the case. No, this fact, like a door springing open, becomes the starting point of a newly beginning life of love. In this life, the eternal question of lovers--'Does he or she love me?'--the question of whether they love one another, is revived every day; love can never be questioned enough, because love never has enough of hearing the reassuring affirmative reply. Behind every answer there is a new question, and behind every reassuring certainty there is an expansive new horizon.
Truth is never actually an absolute to possess. Rather, and surprisingly, it is an event to be touched by.
The following from Fides et Ratio from Jean Paul II
Freedom is not realized in decisions made against God. For how could it be an exercise of true freedom to refuse to be open to the very reality which exalts our self-realization?
Every truth present itself as universal, even if it is not the whole truth. If something is true then it must be true for all people and at all times.
Beyond this universality, however, people seek an absolute which might give to all their searching a meaning and an answer--something ultimate, which might serve as the ground of all things. In other words, they seek a final explanation, a supreme value, which refers to nothing beyond itself and which puts an end to all questioning.
