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I don't know that I have a single, primary philosophy. My main philosophies are all Jewish, of course, but I do a lot of cherry-picking.
I guess maybe Abraham Joshua Heschel is my main man. He teaches deep valuation of the human condition, the love of others, and the appreciation of the universe based in what he calls "radical amazement" at the awe of God's works.
That said, though I don't know if it technically counts as philosophy, having been written by a psychiatrist, but I really like Viktor Frankl's teachings on meaning....
And if I had to go outside Jewish Thought...maybe the Tao. Lao Tzu seems like he really had his shit together....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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