There are two basic powers of Consciousness: the power to know and the power to will. In Mind there two powers express as understanding and deciding. They are complements. Understanding expresses through thought. Decision expressions through choice. Understanding presents the options. Decision selects or wills which option to manifest.
It is true that mind’s thought is ignorant and limited and therefore its exercise of choice is limited too. But mind is capable of receiving and accepted higher truths of consciousness and acting on that basis.
It is true that thought does hand and in hand with emotion, but so does will. Emotions are willed-thoughts which are endorsed by the subconscious, in which the knowledge portion has become involved or subconscious and we are mainly conscious only of the energy or will aspect.
If you abandon thought, you have to replace it with a higher way of knowing. Otherwise will becomes blind.
The best approach is to recognize the limitations of thought and reject the confining perspective it presents. Give up faith in thought. Then what to replace it with? Replace it with silence. Silence in the mind is a higher way of knowing than thinking. When children learn to read they often read aloud, because otherwise they are not sure they are comprehending what they see. Thinking is the same way. When the mind becomes silent, it still exercises the capacity for knowledge, but knowledge that is not limited by the linearity and physicality of our thinking. Silence is a higher power of knowing. For more on silence, see
http://humanscience.wikia.com/wiki/Energy_accomplishes,
http://humanscience.wikia.com/wiki/Silent_Will