There are a few further aspects to truth that we can explore as a way to stretch our own understanding and depth of what truth means and why it is a core value in both religion and social functioning. When we turn to the spiritual level to understand and experience truth, we encounter what seems too abstract. As our inner life--our sense of something greater than ourselves-- draws us to find peace in the daily difficulty and threat of the pandemic, this abstraction though, lends itself to spiritual practice and faith.
Consider these ideas: Theologians, notably Saint Thomas Aquinas, view of the mind of God as the transcendent realm where Truth is not about corresponding to reality, but reality is the out-picturing of Truth. As such, Truth, God, and the creative process supersede our constructs. We can contemplate this Source of life with it's intelligence and patterns, arrangements, creative power, and awareness from the perspective that one of Its names is God, and one of Its other names is Truth. Out of that Truth reality arises. Whether you see the Cosmos and our world as intentional design, with creation and creatures directed as Divine ideas, or as an unfolding process of the Unknown, Un-namable, playing with particles of Itself, without plan, in the Joy of Creation, that is Truth.
For some, this Truth is permanent, fixed and established, unchangeable, objective, consistent: One true God, One Truth, absolute, known only by Divine revelation. On the other hand, from a Taoist perspective, Truth can never be captured as a fixed concept, it is in movement because Life is in movement. As Bruce Lee put it, "All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
Here is the bridge: human, societal and scientific truth are partial subsets of transcendent Truth. We are stretching toward Truth as it unfolds, always out of reach for a rigid intellect, but nevertheless, available to us as clarity and intuitive direction when we turn toward it. What begins as our spiritual commitment and consent to know the truth in human situations, invokes the transcendent, and opens to door to truth. (Susan Nettleton)