They are a manifestation of the divine energy like every other appearance. While it can be noted that ideas are at the core of most of our misery, it's not the thoughts themselves that generate suffering but the belief in them as representing reality that makes it so. When this simple "problem" is remedied by seeing concepts merely as concepts then there is a freedom from the burden of painful ideas. When you don't believe that the rope is a snake anymore, you aren't afraid.
Thoughts don't limit, describe, identify me or anything. They have usefulness in functional terms, allowing us to do many tasks efficiently and in an orderly fashion but in terms of understanding ourselves or the oneness of life, they are useless. They are one aspect of existence but shouldn't be confused with truth. Being doesn't need concepts to be.
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