Well, when you go back time and time again and you "see it all" you realize "it all" might be drastically different! In the beginning it's very useful to have times of dedicated practice that are explicitly meditation/technique focused because doing this let's you cut through a lot of the chatter that is so prevalent that most of the time we don't even notice when it's there. As you progress, you start to bring this noticing to more things, like walking, eating, being around others. Then as get advanced more and more the lines between "formal meditation" and regular life seem to blur more and more, but it's still helpful to have dedicated practice to help notice the subtle things that usually get missing when something more exciting is going on.
I would say, keep trying to go deeper to see how the mind works, it goes well beyond thoughts. After all, if you take the scientific approach what's going on is sensory data comes into our brain, and our brain constructs everything from that, so in that sense "it is all mind".
To help yourself on the understanding mind part, maybe try to probe some of these questions. How do thoughts feed into emotions and vice versa? Who are you (are you this body, these thoughts, these emotions? Who's controlling this thing? Who is seeing? What is knowing?). What is it like when you focus on something soothing and the mind calms down? What kinds of things take you out of that calm?
