In ignorance thoughts refer to an imagined limited body mind. The impression is that of lack and insufficiency. Thinking is imagined to be the salvation.
As you separate yourself from the wholeness of being, as a separate self, you experience a sense of limitation that goes against your innate wholeness.
The return to your innate wholeness is built-in within your very being which is wholeness itself.
This journey to awakening is unavoidable. It can be delayed lifetime upon lifetime, but it cannot be bypassed.